Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kalinin's successor is gruff, bustling, 57-year-old Vice President Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, who will now function both as President of the Union and as an alternate member of the policymaking Politburo. The Soviet Union's longtime trade-union chief, he is primarily the workers' man, where Kalinin was the peasants' champion. The son of a Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union...
...considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
...declining birthrates, content to hold on to what they had; others were "dynamic"-aggressive, young, with increasing birthrates, in need of more Lebensraum. A state was a living organism, quite justified in seizing what it needed to survive. For a dynamic nation like Germany, conquest was a natural biological function...
...sets up a permanent council of three full-time economic advisers to the President, at salaries of $15,000 a year. Their job is to help the Administration and the Congress decide what the Government should (and should not) do to help the U.S. economy function smoothly and prosperously...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...