Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be perhaps going too far to say that Dartmouth is little more than its Winter Carnival, but the perennial February function is indeed the best-known feature of this monastic college. Although the purpose of the Carnival may have degenerated from the intention expressed at the Carnival's inception in 1911--to have "good, wholesome, outdoor fun," into a device to give Dartmouth sufficient appeal to attract women there, it does serve this purpose, as well as that of being the major unifying activity of the college...
...Saudi Arabia's King Saud acted every inch the fabled and inscrutable potentate. His retinue-some 70 advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee-brewer, a keeper of the royal jewels...
...Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...these days, near the hours of 9 A.M. or 2 P.M., an observer may see Harvard men on their ways to Memorial Hall, the Geographic Institute, the Fine Arts Museum, etc.--Radcliffe girls on their way to Longfellow Hall. Harvard men are faced by a bevy of proctors, whose function, besides that of passing out and collecting blue books, is to serve as watchdogs of student honor. The young ladies from Radcliffe are passing the same three hours with the satisfaction of knowing that the University deems their honor above review...
...basic consideration about all such maps is the utilitarian function. We use them because we want to know where we are, or where we are going to. Rarely, if ever, does the map give any indication of what the land itself really looks like. It merely relates places to other places...