Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of knotty question that TIME'S editors explore each week in the two-column box in the BUSINESS section. This special feature was started some two years ago (the first essay: "The Case for Free Trade." May 25, 1953). It was designed to fill a particular editorial function outside the area of spot news: the need to discuss topics of general business interest, subjects which are on people's minds. The idea is to present the pros and cons, to give the reader a reflective report and the guidance that will stimulate his own thinking...
...Burmese Cinemactress Win Min (The Purple Plain-TIME, March 14) Than, 21, crashed into headlines with seme Oriental slants on life likely to make U.S. husbands her most loyal fans. Said Win Min Than (a bride of a year): "Men are meant to rule and woman's main function in life is to help them on ... Men at home are much like babies and want to be looked after ... To have one's husband do a day's work outside the home and then come home and work some more-why, that should be unthinkable...
...rest of the panel. When he does solve a contestant's trade, he is likely to worry the problem like a dog with a bone, asking repeated questions long after it is obvious to even the dullest viewer that he knows the answer. Cerf's apparent function is to slow down the headlong pace of the game. He does it almost too well...
...father, IBM's Board Chairman Thomas J. Watson Sr., applied only to men. President Watson hopes to mechanize hundreds of processes which require the drab, repetitive "thought" of everyday business. Thus liberated from grinding routine, man can put his own brain to work on problems requiring a function beyond the capabilities of the machine: creative thought. Says Watson: "Our job is to make automatic a lot of things now done by slow and laborious human drudgery. A hundred years ago there was an industrial revolution in which seven to ten horsepower was put behind each pair of industrial hands...
...seems, however, that the graders in History 164b have taken the educating function as a principle in grading the March 11 hour exam. For each essay, both good and bad points were noted, and a short outline of the desired answer was added...