Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...function of the modern university, Conant said, to provide students with a synthesis of professional training and instructions in the humanities...
...Wiener with mingled alarm and triumph, are not mere mathematical tools. They are, he said, harbingers of a whole new science of communication and control, which he promptly named "cybernetics."* The newest machines, Wiener pointed out, already have an extraordinary resemblance to the human brain, both in structure and function. So far, they have no senses or "effectors" (arms and legs), but why shouldn't they have? There are all sorts of artificial eyes, ears and fingertips (thermometers, strain gauges, pressure indicators, photo-electric tubes) that may be hooked up to the machines. The machines can already work typewriters...
...what churchly or architectural authority does the FORUM writer decide that wild and different design is an "advance" in accomplishing the function of church (exterior) design? The church is a continuing institution. Most churches (99% of them) are not eager to express in their design aberrations of the current fear and confusion and secularism which characterizes much of our current life...
Ranger Coach Lynn Patrick had found a way to jam Detroit's high-velocity forward line of Lindsay, Gordon Howe and Abel by borrowing from platoon football. He simply used his own second line as a defensive unit whose chief function was not to score but to keep the Wings from scoring. When Detroit's main-line trio of Lindsay, Howe and Abel skated onto the ice, so did Patrick's nuisance line. When Lindsay & Co. were called off the ice to rest between sallies, so were their Ranger shadows. Then Coach Patrick inserted the line that...
Dean Bender, in reaffirming the agreement, misconstrued his function under this arrangement, and the Council was equally misguided. The Dean says that he did not consider the extension of join instructing to freshman courses an important change in policy. But the function of the Dean's Office in these matters should not be judicial. Dean Bender should pass along to the Council any decision on educational policy without deciding on its weight, leaving it for the Council to pass on whether the matter is worth its consideration...