Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispatches from Germany that observers there were certain he was not anti-Semitic and that I was sure he did not wish his statements to be interpreted as a reflection on either world Jewry or Polish Jews ... I do not think it was the function of the correspondents to report that unfortunately General Freddie had his foot in his mouth the day of the fateful conference...
About 300 first-term Freshmen will be ineligible to vote or hold office. Representatives of men who have just entered the College will be chosen at a later date after students have become better acquainted. The main function of the committee will be to make arrangements for the Freshman Jubilee, to be held the last week in April...
...inferred from this that the Commission passes upon the investment merit of securities registered with it-that registration in itself may be taken as some assurance if not a guarantee against loss to those who purchase registered securities. General acceptance of such a misconception of the Commission's function under the Securities Act of 1933 would defeat the very purpose...
...since Jan. 17 ended by drowning all opposition. New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, who had tried to force a vote on establishing a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, finally gave up. The 24-day filibuster triumphantly ended, the highest legislative chamber in the land was free to function once again...
...notable finding of the Navy's experimenters-and the basis of Sofar-is the sound-carrying property of water 2,000-6,000 feet below the surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...