Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical ones, and as such they may and should be left to the judges and lawyers who administer the jury system. These court officers are in a far better position than anyone else to decide how far the study may go before it interferes with the jury's function. In the Wichita cases, both the courts and counsel gave their permission and nothing in the furor since indicates that any harm came of their doing...
...committee feels it is the function of the University to develop this commitment within the student. "If a student is to retain a living commitment, the University must expose him to new possibilities for commitment, or enable him to examine and understand the ideas he brings with him. A traditional sense of worth which is ossified or decayed and is not part of a person's effective intellectual commitment cannot be deemed a commitment...
...SOCIAL FUNCTION (a score of 1,000 points out of a possible 1,000): "With some 5,000,000 workers [the church] annually educates about 20 million children and cares for an even greater number of the sick and needy of all creeds...
...bitter and recurring debate in U.S. history concerns the money supply. In the 1870s and '80s national elections were fought on the issue of tight v. easy money; new parties-the Populists, the Green-backers-sprang up whose primary function was to argue for a looser money supply. William Jennings Bryan, Boy Orator of the Platte, won his reputation and the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896 with a plea for easier money...
Vomiting is an important protective function, i.e., the stomach eliminates or warns against dangerous substances in the body. But, while doctors know how to induce vomiting,* they have never found out exactly how it is caused. Scientists at the University of Utah College of Medicine are now studying vomiting for a clue to the nature of one of man's newest ailments: radiation sickness...