Word: functionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sense a burden. Over 85 per cent of Lowell House has bought Dues Cards this year, giving us a working budget from cards alone of over $1200. From this budget we are able to offer new and important services to the House, which after all, is the true function of any House Committee. Alan R. Blackmer, Jr. Secretary, Lowell House Committee
...intention of the research, as Professor Skinner has stated in his report to the Fund, is on "controlling the variables of which learning is a function." By setting up suitable "contingencies of reinforcement," Skinner says, the particular modes of behavior can be directed by the particular type of stimuli. The consequent behavior proves to be predictable over long stretches of time...
...subjects had progressively shorter times of useful consciousness. But even at 40,000 ft. the Indians averaged 1½ minutes, and one held out for more than two minutes. These results answered the first question with an emphatic yes: an astronaut having temporary trouble would be able to function effectively far longer, and thus perhaps save his life, if he had the High Andean's altitude endurance...
...Roxbury Tammany Club recreated. Partly because many of his constituents could not yet read a ballot, Curley made a more educational enterprise of his club. He invited speakers from outside the ward. Whatever the topic, he assured them all of an intelligent and sympathetic audience. Thus their dual function was to provide the ward with entertainment as well as enlightenment. Such was the speaker, an opponent of Irish freedom, who Curley had described the previous week as a Harvard professor. The speaker managed to get out that night after a cuspidor had hit him on the head...
However the shelf may be employed, its full utilitarian potential certainly should be exploited. Embarrasingly enough, the Square now has a form to which some function must be fitted. There's no reason why Harvard Square, like any other square, should not toe the modern American line. No matter how ugly it is--if it works...