Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overspecialization, which "focuses on details and never comes to grips with real issues"; 3) the idea that "education is primarily concerned with the communication of knowledge, whereas it is actually the communication of intellectual power"; 4) the worship of facts: "Pursuit of the truth is undoubtedly the highest function of the university, but that is not synonymous with scientific research...
...their Manhattan convention last week, U.S. newspaper publishers took up a growing problem: "creeping censorship," notably by Government departments. Said Charles F. McCahill, general manager of the Cleveland News and president of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association: "Many bureaucrats in government appear to prefer to function without knowledge of the people . . . We have had too many instances of efforts to suppress information...
...that pilots could continue to function in the maneuvers of high-speed combat, the Navy and Air Force developed G-suits-nylon coveralls with air bladders mounted at the abdomen, thighs and shins. All five bladders are interconnected, and, in the cockpit, they are attached to an air pump. The flow of air to the G-suit is regulated by a weighted valve spring. The same G forces that tug at the pilot move the valve spring. As air is admitted to the G-suit, its bladders become tourniquets, preventing the blood from pooling in, the blood vessels of legs...
Because of its smaller size the Annex infirmary is unable to provide some of the services available at the Harvard Hygiene building. The 'Cliffe Center does provide one unique function, however; it does a slow but regular business in giving blood tests as preliminaries to marriage...
Conant was attacked by two Yale faculty members on Wednesday, Dean William C. DeVane stated that private schools have a definite place in education, while the Rev. John C. Murray, visiting professor of philosophy, claimed "all schools, public and private, should be allowed to function...