Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grace Vanderbilt's most potent social weapon was the cultivation of European royalty, a technique which earned her the nickname "Kingfisher." Her first great coup occurred in 1902, when by request of Kaiser Wilhelm II she was hostess to Prince Henry of Prussia at the only private social function he attended in the U.S. In the years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant...
...right now its function is strictly limited to learning how to make money through investments. A year long competition is now in progress to see which member, each of whom has theoretically "invested" $10,000 in stocks, can accumulate the greatest profit. Future plans include actual investing of the club's money. Weinberger expects the formation of the members into a legal investing partnership to provide an even keener interest in the club...
...Quiet Holiday. On the last day of the old year, Ike gave the staff permission to knock off at noon. Newsmen pressed him for a New Year's message to the nation, but he declined, on the ground that a formal statement was the traditional function of the President and not the President-elect. But the news microphones were there as Ike emerged. Cheerily waving his brown felt hat, he wished a "Happy New Year to everybody everywhere." Then he was off to a holiday with his family, a champagne toast to see the New Year...
...Another function that Conant enjoyed was his annual appearance at each of the House dinners. He would give a short talk on something that he felt particularly qualified to talk on--and then answer questions about the College from the floor. Some questions were so small that he didn't know anything about them and couldn't answer and some were so large that he knew too much and couldn't answer. He parried the latter kind, usually with an anecdote from Harvard history, but he enjoyed the sessions because he liked to find out what the undergraduates were concerned...
...addition, his zeal in fighting off formula-men, a traditional function of Harvard presidents, has had much to do with the spirit of inquiry that abounds at Harvard. This is a more arduous task than one might imagine, for at present the nation's intellectual brew is filled with unusual amounts of dogma and intolerance...