Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pumps to circulate the high-pressure, radioactive water had to have perfection never demanded before. The shield to enclose the radioactive parts was a formidable problem. So was the control system whose function is to keep the reactor from destroying itself and the submarine...
...attitude toward money, whether healthy or not, is usually determined early in life, said Dr. Kaufman. If it is unhealthy, it may touch off a variety of psychosomatic illnesses, such as headaches, anxiety states, hysterical paralysis, panic reactions, depression, or disorders of the digestive system, heart and lung function, or muscular control...
Today Farm Street still maintains the tradition of getting there first with the best of the Catholic point of view on everything from euthanasia to the Kinsey Report. One of its priests recently outlined Farm Street's function as "presenting the Catholic religion in modern terms to the intelligentsia of the day and answering any attacks made upon Catholics.'' Immaculate Conception is no parish church; it contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members...
...Paris, Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali, looking pretty surrealistic himself, was persuaded to exhibit his newly elongated waxed mustache. To nobody's surprise, Dali explained that his latest creation served a real function: "It is like an aerial, stretching out to capture genius and inspiration, pointing to heaven like the spires of a cathedral...
...mobile "islands of resistance" or "centers of strength" as big as a division or even a corps. The islands, air-supplied, would be capable of holding against strong enemy forces, and of blasting their way through very strong enemy defenses. Thus NATO forces could transform their real-estate-guarding function into something more positive...