Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Bs. But Ulithi's chief function was to supply the fleet with "bomb, beans and bullets." In the anchorage floated the "crockery fleet" - concrete barges storing the million items needed by a thousand ships. Fast supply ships and slow tankers shuttled from the U.S. to Ulithi, bringing oil, meat, screws, tires and flour to these warehouse barges which in turn unloaded their supplies into carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and up to 700 amphibious vessels...
This increase in the population of high schools was marked by a "gradual change . . . in the whole character of the high school and its function toward American society." Where the early high school trained men who would go on to college, trained them in the staples of composition and mathematics, Virgil and Xenophon, the modern high school's function and scope are broader...
...this report, which has to do, not with the thousand influences dividing man from man, but with the necessary bonds and common ground between them. Democracy, however much by ensuring the right to differ it may foster difference--particularly in a technological age which further encourages division of function and hence difference of outlook--yet depends equally on the binding ties of common standards...
This time Church House was to be the temporary home of the preparatory commission which would serve as midwife to the new world organization called the United Nations. How and where the United Nations would begin to function was largely up to the commission. The first steps were well along last week...
...saved by liberal use of blood plasma and careful artificial regulation of blood composition and pressure to keep him going until his skin envelope could function again. The only burn dressing was gauze smeared with vaseline. The man was back on duty three months after the accident...