Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Close support of ground troops as a flying artillery" is the third function. "When the press was raging at the Air Force for not stopping the enemy . . . the fliers wanted to attack communication targets, but until August 3 they hadn't permission to get off close support missions," Leach declared...
Construction of an auditorium-theatre that will have the double function of seating several thousand people at popular lectures, or smaller audiences for drama, music, radio, and television performances has been proposed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Poskanzer then began a survey to prove that the College does not fulfill this function and suggested several remedies...
This was a heady experience; he found himself commanding the services of a special unit known as the Major Disaster Squad. Though the squad was officially charged with anticipating and preventing major conflagrations, it actually served a vastly different function. Its 60 hand-picked members, luxuriating in the regime of Mayor William O'Dwyer, were all "real pushers," who could "put the arm on anybody"; they did nothing for months but sell tickets to the Firemen's Ball...
Serving without pay, Mr. Mac proved to be just what the college had hoped for. He liked Reed's twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), refused to tamper with the faculty ("The function of a college is to search for truth...