Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally, the Indian zamindar (land agent) was a creature of the Turks, who ruled India in the 13th century. His function was simply to skim off a fat slice (often 50%) of the peasant soil-tiller's earnings, keep a cut for himself, and turn the rest over to his superior on the feudal ladder. Under the Moguls, who followed the Turks, India's peasants were systematically exploited but rarely dispossessed...
...medical techniques, but "the phillosophy that has gradually been tacked on" them. "Freud's most fundamental mistake was to view a person as a machine, a set of mechanisms, and to consider the psychoanalyst as a technician or mechanic who is supposed to mend these mechanisms when they function badly...
Housemasters and tutors are unanimous in belittling student fears of "having a House Dean snooping on my cocktail parties. . . "Pointing out that much discipline has always been taken meted out in the Houses. Housemasters feel that this side of a tutor's function has been overemphasized, and that a student will gain by having at least one man on the Administrative Board who knows...
...anything in the world to get pregnant,' yet when given diets and basal body temperature charts, they find many rationalizations for not dieting and keeping the monthly record." The last thing in the world that they really want, he contended, is weight reduction and the normal ovarian function which could make pregnancy possible...
...Thompson renewed her attack. Last week, before the Senate's Armed Services Committee, she set out to prove that a woman should not be denied the opportunity to serve her country "solely because she performed the function for which our Creator intended her." She argued: "If business, labor and government cannot afford to lose their married women, how can the armed services afford to be so profligate...