Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed that the CRIMSON appears to be completely unaware of the present Committee to Evaluate the Student Council, its function and organization. Its criticism will be heavy, but if the creative suggestions are implemented a more effective Council will result. Obviously, however, future loopholes will develop with changing situations as in any democratic body.... The suggestion that administration appointed students write the reports is in itself poorly made. Such a system would only take these reports far from the realm of student oriented opinion, as well as cast doubt upon the representative character of the report...
Roosevelt's enormous energy found a new outlet in the fall of his junior year--Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of Chestnut Hill. He courted her as energetically as he did everything else which interested him. "See that girl?" he had said at a Pudding function. "I am going to marry her. She won't have me, but I am going to have...
...Harvard Society for Minority Rights recently revoked its decision to sponsor Wang when it could find no member of the NAACP willing to debate Wang. The NAACP explained that its function does not include debating...
...case of a mild stroke such as Ike's, recovery is apt to take place-barring a new stroke-simply because the clot has dissolved. Even in more serious cases, when brain cells are damaged or destroyed, partial recovery is possible, as neighboring brain cells take over the function of damaged cells and other blood vessels take over to supply the damaged area with blood...
...toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, protective suits are essential. Above 63,000 ft. (where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...