Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloodless Coo. The day before the bipartisanship meeting, the President had held an even longer session with congressional Republicans to give a yes answer to another question: Can the U.S. Government function when the President's party is split? In fashioning next year's domestic program for Congress, the possibilities for friction had seemed greater than at the foreign-policy meeting. But Senate Leader William Knowland intoned that the talks had been "constructive and harmonious." Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin reported that the whole affair was "like the cooing of doves...
Expansion of the College is an exciting prospect. But Boylston's new roof, as Eliot pointed out, sacrificed beauty to function. The problem now facing the College in whether it can likewise expand its facilities without sacrificing the graceful lines of the traditional Harvard education...
According to William Bentinck-Smith '27, special assistant to the President, Pusey had received no indication that Conant will return. "I can't think of any possible function that's planned for early February," he stated...
Uncertainty about the day of Conant's arrival would preclude a formal function for the ex-president in Cambridge and suggest a series of private conferences with University officers. The ex-president emeritus has returned only twice to Cambridge since he went abroad to Germany. However, he has never returned to confer on University matters...
Finally, motion pictures have taken the final stride toward valuable utilization of the extra screen area at their command. The big selling point of The Black Widow was that it represented the first time a "Crime of Passion has appeared on Wide screen." Mood setting is obviously the proper function for the embarrassing space on either side of CinemaScope action. Unfortunately, this particular picture just drudges along with extra chairs, rugs, lamps, desks, and the other paraphernalia of interior films. What might have been done confounds the imagination...