Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become a tactical commander, Wedemeyer had devoted his army service to being a staff officer; eventually he got to be one of the biggest in the Army (between October 1948 and August 1949, when he was deputy Army chief of staff in charge of planning). His function was not to make final decisions (as a regimental commander must), but to lay down clearly all the ramifications of a situation and all the possible decisions, make recommendations for somebody else to choose from. Such thinking habits seemed to be guiding Wedemeyer last week...
...feel discouraged before we even get started. Part of our dejection is probably due to the fact that the United Nations to which we pinned our hopes for peace, has not banished bloodshed from the earth . . . But, if for a moment we can turn our attention away from the function of the U.N. as an arbiter of international conflict and consider the impact that that institution has had in other areas, we can be greatly encouraged...
...mission had an unofficial function which U.S. military authorities did not find amusing: espionage in the U.S. zone. U.S. authorities finally found the excuse they had been seeking to send the Soviet mission packing. Last month, a trigger-happy, tommygun-toting Russian soldier had killed a U.S. corporal who was on night patrol in Vienna's international zone. When the Russians refused to cooperate with the U.S. in an investigation of the case, U.S. High Commissioner Walter J. Donnelly retaliated by giving the mission until June 8 to return to the Soviet zone...
...have not resigned from the human race. Neither science nor technology nor all the deterministic doctrine inspired by them, nor the despotisms that have tried to force that doctrine upon mankind, have succeeded in producing a world that can function without our individual powers of reason, imagination and conscience. We are not mere sponges or plankton afloat on a tide . . . We are rational beings, capable of charting the tide and navigating it, and even diverting and directing it . . . There is no dialectical or technological substitute for the creative individual...
...went into operation last week at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The secret of the new clock's accuracy is a set of four quartz crystals, about the size of matchbooks, which vibrate in controlled temperature vacuum chambers at 100,000 cycles per second. Their function: to control the pulses of current which drive the mechanism. Working together with 600 electron tubes, the crystals operate with a margin for error of about one part in a billion...