Word: functionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slightly different connotations but is there any reason for trying to define exactly what each of these epithets ought to indicate everywhere? I doubt that particular instincts or organs need be found in people for each conventional quality. Still in proposing to limit each to specific function we may make many subtle observations and clarify many a judgment that we should otherwise have left vague. This is the chief interest which has kept me reading your book almost from beginning to end. The chief place that attracted my theoretical attention was where you invoke the organic source and function...
...trouble with criticism in this age," says TIME Drama Critic Louis Kronenberger, "is that there's so much concern about 'the function of the critic.' The minute a critic decides what his duty is, he is apt to stop living up to it. Criticism after all is a way of exercising the mind...
General Manager Ted Cott, of Manhattan's station WNBC, is a man who abhors a vacuum. In February the Civil Defense authorities asked him to keep WNBC on the air from midnight until 6 a.m. so that the station would be ready to function instantly in case of an emergency. All the Civil Defense required was a constant tone signal. Instead, Cott decided to fill the six hours with classical music and see what would happen...
Party membership has more than doubled (2,500,000 in 1941 to 6,000,000 today), many of the new members being politically "soft" or "unreliable." Many parts of the mechanism have clashed with others or lost their original function. The new party rules seemed designed to 1) tighten party discipline and 2) make the machine run more smoothly by junking some unnecessary parts...
...arrives punctually at 6:25 at the door of the Casa Rosada and gives the captain of the guard a hearty handshake before entering the building. By 6:30 he is busy signing papers. Since his wife's death, he has made no public statement, attended no public function...