Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason men become bald is because their hair is cut so often and so short. Each hair is supported by a muscle; as the hair grows heavier, the muscle grows proportionately stronger. But when the hair is cut, the muscle is deprived of its normal exercise, loses its function, the hair falls out. The most beautiful hair is that which is allowed to grow unhampered. As long as the barbers rule the waves, woman's hair will never be her crowning glory...
...fight for the admission of peeresses to the Lords. The case was referred to the Privileges Committee of the Commons. She claimed a seat on the Sex Disqualification Act of 1919, which provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex from the exercise of any public function. The Committee, rejecting the plea, said that a seat in the Lords was an "honor" and not a "public function." Briant's bill may lead to the establishment of "The House of Lords and Ladies...
...consider myself the greatest pacifist in the world," said Colonel Browning in response to a question on his attitude toward the question, "and I believe the average Army officer must be placed in the same category. The Army is taught that the function is to maintain peace. If there are any men in the Army who look forward to war, and I have yet to discover one, they must be soldiers of fortune. Most of us are married men, and realizing that we would be the first to be called, we recognize that by maintaining peace we do not take...
...conforms to the growing tendency to eliminate as far as possible an undue emphasis on intercollegiate contests. Major Moore's statement that the Athletic Committee will probably not reconsider its decision on the status of boxing in the University is altogether in accordance with a national interpretation of the function of college athletics...
...point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving college for the year, he placed himself in charge of Mr. Neudorf when he returned the following September, and finally succeeded in having his arm and leg function, although he walked with a very slight limp...