Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...
...Burial? Nobody could prove anything shady or illegal about the Mapes Hotel loan, but neither could anybody prove that the RFC's action looked very smart. There was a more basic question: Was it a proper Government function in boom times to lend money to businesses where private bankers refused to tread? Wasn't RFC too often supporting an army of potential bankrupts, to keep them going against sharper competitors...
...European countries in the Marshall Plan unanimously agreed to set up a European Payments Union (TIME, June 12). When operating, EPU will make their currencies-even sterling-almost fully interchangeable for the first time since World War II. Said a pleased Dutch delegate: "The whole Schuman Plan could not function without EPU. It is the basis for our work...
...four. Society is in a bad way when too many people reject every ancient truth and tradition in ethics and politics and art because thereby they can show off better at cocktail parties. Civilization is an infinitely fragile bundle of accumulated habits and restraints. The necessary conservative function of any generation is not just to enjoy itself but to pass on this bundle in good condition to the next generation...
...future, the Record concludes: "Unless a college building expresses in its architecture the advancement of thought and dissemination of knowledge which are the college's reasons for existence, that building has in some degree failed to achieve its purpose. However well it may perform mechanically. . . it fails to function philosophically or even spiritually...