Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before OSS began to function, Bill Donovan was convinced that such an agency should be set up, to work not only in war but in peacetime. In 1941 he sent a confidential memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlining a plan...
Through these shadows, and a dozen others, one reality loomed: UNO was beginning to function. When the League of Nations opened the New York Times had gazed sadly at its own nonparticipating country and paraphrased Voltaire: † "Hang yourself, Crillon, for there has been glorious fighting and you were not here...
G.C.A. is made up of two microwave radar systems. The first is a rotating search beam: it is a modification of the two-dimensional radar used during the war to warn against the approach of enemy planes. Function of the search system is to find the approaching aircraft, and guide it through air traffic into the ten-mile range of the precision system...
Geometricians of Virtue. "This retribution, which has a geometrical rigor, which operates automatically to penalize the abuse of force, was the main subject of Greek thought. It is the soul of the epic. Under the name of Nemesis, it functions as the mainspring of Aeschylus' tragedies. To the Pythagoreans, to Socrates and Plato, it was the jumping-off point of speculation upon the nature of man and the universe. Wherever Hellenism has penetrated, we find the idea of it familiar. . . . The Occident, however, has lost it, and no longer even has a word to express...
Pointing to the obvious advantages of a location so close to the Houses, Saise suggested that the bell hanging in the belfry atop one end off the present architectural antiquity continue its function on the new library as a fire and general emergency warning...