Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example of the "extremely difficult and possibly decisive questions" raised by the Cambridge Project, Ptashue cited Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill, which forbids the Defense Department to fund "any research project or study" not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function...
...today's students really against the old American notion that colleges must act in loco parentis? In some ways, the young seem to be asking for even more tender, loving care. At Stanford University, President Kenneth Pitzer is now pondering whether his school should take over yet another function-dispensing the Pill to unmarried women students under as well as over...
...context they function somewhat as does the prologue to Henry V, as an apology and craftsman's argument: "What the hell, if you really want to wait sixteen years come back and see if we're still here." But they also meant: "This play's message is timeless, and its people are such as have lived, live, and shall live...
When Fred Reynolds organized the Band in 1919, its main function was to support the Harvard football team. As the Band celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, it has expanded to include a 60-piece Concert Band and a select Woodwind Ensemble. Its members are talented musicians; "hacks" no longer infiltrate the Band's rank and file...
About the change in the Band's direction, Feige said, "I hate to think that the Band's main function is playing at football games, yet football games give us the most exposure. Everyone around here thinks our main function is playing at football games. but it isn't. People come up band ask us what we do after football season. I really don't know whose fault it is that people don't know about our concert season...