Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AAUP suggested that "the function of the legislative branch of the Government is the enactment of legislation, and not the prosecution of individuals...
Made-to-Order Team. This is the first commercial building venture outside New York for the Uris brothers, Percy, 53, and Harold, 47, who function like a made-to-order team. Percy is the dynamo and dreamer of the combination. An economics major at Columbia, where he graduated in 1920, he handles the company's financing and mortgaging arrangements. Harold, a civil-engineering graduate of Cornell in 1925, is the detail man and boss of construction. Percy is voluble and high-strung; Harold is stolid and softspoken. Says he: "Percy makes the money and I spend...
Although the election of the president must be ratified by the Board of Overseers, the burden of selection falls almost entirely on the Corporation. The Overseers' function is restricted to voting the Corporation power to elect the president and then of ratifying the choice...
...devotion to the secular activities of PBH. But it difficult to see how his position as an embryonic cleric can fail to inject a religious element into the organization. And with PBH's hymn-singing days far behind, such an element would be undesirable because Brooks House's function is now to offer opportunities for social service along secular lines. Heading this institution with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extracurricular activities. Further, a divinity school Secretary will probably have trouble convincing parochial settlements that Brooks House workers will keep their gospel...
...Private citizens and local bodies cannot meet this threat alone," he continued. "It is the function of Congress to deal with the national and international aspects of this conspiracy...