Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked Gordon Gray, former Secretary of the Army and now president of the University of North Carolina, to become director of a new national psychological strategy board. The board's function: to tie together the work of at least seven agencies in the cold...
...ever believed that we should involve our forces in the island . . . We gave vast amounts of military equipment to that government. . . It is not that they lack rifles or ammunition ... or that they cannot purchase what they need . . . The trouble lies elsewhere, and it is not the function of the U.S. nor will it or can it attempt to furnish a will to resist and a purpose for resistance to those who must provide for themselves...
...Proper Function. The whole ideal of the university is rooted deep in Western civilization-older than parliaments, older than the modern state itself-and over the centuries it has assumed many functions. It has been a refuge for scholars, a treasure house of facts, an incubator of new ideas and new ideals. At its best, it has always been the preserver; propagator and perpetuator of human wisdom. The proper function of the university, wrote Newman, is "teaching universal knowledge...
...first function of a yearbook is to come out, the second is to come out good. For two years running the Yearbook people have given tradition a healthy kick by producing their publication on time; previous annuals tended to get lost at the bindery or disappear in the mails. Now, with its publication problem beaten, the Yearbook can profitably start worrying a little more about what it publishes...
...thumb through it. You will find yourself pointing out your friends, discovering the name of the man across the hall, and looking for your own picture in the back of the Jubilee or in a crowd of 500 people around the Lampoon's steps. This is the present, contemporary function of 315. In a few years your reading focus may switch somewhat. 315 will become a reference volume, dedicated to the proposition that association in the Glee Club may lead to appropriation for a job. Past that, 315 will probably turn out to be a large and heavy object...