Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technicians deployed their Geiger counters to check the level of radioactivity. Report: no danger. Reason: nuclear bombs have been painstakingly designed so that they cannot function unless they go through a complex arming process, and the Air Force is not likely to fly with armed nuclear bombs this side of the Iron Curtain or the Pole...
...disappearance of standards demanded of them by the colleges when they were ready to leave. The elementary schools, by misapplication of the theories of Dewey and Freud, had eliminated unpleasant work and had substituted play . . . The colleges had so diluted their entrance requirements that they ceased to function as incentives to scholarship...
...exists in Brooks House. The Cabinet already appoints itself, since the new committee heads are appointed by the outgoing ones. Since the war, on the other hand, the entire organization has elected the Brooks House officers from among the Cabinet nominees, and now the Cabinet has assumed even this function, declaring the membership unfit to vote...
...tour convinced that scores of communities will have to shift gears or perish. He found that a long-term drop in the state's net farm income (down $97 million since 1949) was aggravated by an agricultural revolution that is eliminating the country town's longtime function of marketplace and supply center. Yet, he reported, bigwigs in many rural communities are more interested in keeping out unions than bringing in industrial payrolls that would give their towns economic balance...
Wire Service. In London, a survey published by Lloyd's Bank on the fate of 100,000 paper clips revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...