Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this age of intense competition for the best all-around students, we cannot rest upon the reputation of Harvard. Family tradition is no longer potent. Today men attend the college of their choice rather than the college of their parents. I suggest that it is a proper function of the alumni to influence that choice...
Devising means to meet the deadly menace of the U.S.S.R.'s submarines was a key task for the U.S. Navy, but it was only part of its function. The Navy's job, Sherman argued, was also to keep the fighting on the far side of the ocean, to help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen...
Arriving in Rio de Janeiro for this week's regional conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...
...chief function of these conferences as one NSA official puts it, is to "bring different schools together and let them exchange ideas." Delegates talk for ten days about problems like fraternity discrimination, scholarships, and teaching. Then they are supposed to scoot back to school and tell people what other colleges are doing about these problems...
...should like to thank the Harvard Student Council for "overstepping its original function" and adding its support to a bill which would benefit a large number of students in Massachusetts...