Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fragile Crew. Other pessimists are to be found at the Air Force School of Space Medicine at San Antonio, Texas. How will human bodies and brains function in space? The medical experts are willing to believe that rockets can be built to navigate space, but they are not so sure that the human crews can take it. At 50,000 ft., where a jet plane can fly, the air is no use to the pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space...
...There's the possible idea that people at Harvard don't like our function, or think it's badly executed," commented Roger Hahn '53, publicity director of the committee. "We have a very open mind. If there's something wrong with our service we want to know about it," he added...
Despite this promotion, the board was unable to function because of a boycott by its six industry members, who had sided with Cox and the five other public members in urging that the increase be held to $1.50 as an anti-inflationary measure. The board handled the case until Tuesday...
...Pursuit of the truth is undoubtedly the highest function of the university, but that is not synonymous with scientific research. It refers to search for reality, for meaning, for ultimate answers . . . The quotation so frequently cited to suggest the goal of education is incomplete. It is as follows: 'If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' [John 8:31-32) . . . Divested of its other implications, the clause referring to discipleship suggests that a commitment is involved if one would find...
Walker's chief function as Chairman of the Committee of Enrollments is to coordinate alumni activities. Some 90 alumni committees are now operating under Yale University's scrutiny. These committees perform the ground-work of the entire admissions program. Operating in their own local areas they work in this way: they first seek out students of high promise, then interest them in Yale, interview them, encourage them to apply, and follow up on them even after they have been accepted, to make certain they will go to Yale...