Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scourge of the East. That was in a long ago that might never be again. It will never be again judging from the present tendencies of other colleges. Realize that the past does not lie ahead. Build for a future where the college fulfills its time-honored function of the education of minds. Honor the body with exercise better calculated to preserve it. Develop competitive spirit and courage on other fields than those that bear this bitter fruit. Michael A. Weinberg...
...Waiting for God (Putnam; $3.50), her spiritual autobiography is published in English for the first time. Excerpts: ¶ "The function of the church as the collective keeper of dogma is indispensable . .. But she is guilty of an abuse of power when she claims to force love and intelligence to model their language upon her own. This abuse of power is not of God. It comes from the natural tendency of every form of collectivism, without exception, to abuse power." ¶ "It is in affliction itself that the splendor of God's mercy shines, from its very depths...
...same principal applies to other physical burdens of the H.A.A. Judgment demands that despite whatever useful purposes certain items in the plant might have, the H.A.A. would do well to function without them, just for the sake of economy. But items like the Weld Boathouse, while expendable in a pinch, are tough...
...carrier-borne fighter, seemed just about as fast. Designed by Joe Smith, whose best-known plane is the famous Spitfire fighter of World War II, it has thin straight wings and a "butterfly tail" with two hinged sections at 45° from the vertical which function both as elevators and rudder...
Wrote Mumford: "In this building, the movement that took shape in the mind of Le Corbusier in the early 1920s-and that sought to identify the vast and varied contents of modern architecture with its own arid mannerism-has reached a climax of formal purity and functional inadequacy. Whereas modern architecture began with the true precept that form follows function . . . this new office building is based on the theory that . . . function should be sacrificed to form...