Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the day, Greene is concerned with keeping interdepartmental mail flowing among the sub-stations, and fending off intruders who have severe misconceptions about the function of his service. At the beginning of each school year, curious freshmen keep popping in to find out why their monthly checks go astray and why they keep getting letters addressed to people in Eliot House. All Greene can do is refer them to the Information Office in Weld Hall, and offer to sell them some stamps. He does about $50 worth of stamp business each week, mostly in the three-cent variety...
...committed illegal acts. Membership in a "Communist political organization" or "Communist front organization" which has not registered with the Attorney-General is outlawed. Also, members of registered "Communist political organizations" could be jailed and fined under a section of the bill which outlaws acts cited as the regular function of those organizations...
...other hand, maybe the clubs just want to organize for the social contact function. If that is the case, they ought to drop their ostensible thought-provoking character, and join hands with that famous social contact group, the Carlton Club...
Claiming that the present educational philosophy toward women is "You had better be a man or take the consequences," Dr. Marynia Farnham, author of "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex," denounced educators during last night's Law Forum for their failure to teach women what their function is, and what will be demanded from them in 20th century society...
...Farnham said women's comparatively new social, political, and educational equalities tended to obscure her original function as a bearer and rearer of children. Modern woman, she said, is educated by men's standards, she knows little about family life, and when she is thrust in the middle of it she finds it a limited, stunted role...