Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system in trades unionism is to have a union of laborers and a union of employers with the Fascisti Party in between. They meet to discuss disputes and they decide on a contract by collective bargaining, the Government's function being to enforce the decision...
...Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden for a monthly delivery of 15,000 to 20,000 bunches of bananas. In Delmar, Del., George Morris, a plumber, was obliged to dig a hole under a house. Crawling in, he felt...
After lunch he laid the cornerstone of Cleveland's new public library, which function President Harding was to have undertaken had he lived. Noticing the intertwined Star Spangled Banners and Union Jacks, Mr. George said to a crowd estimated at 25,000: " As long as these two flags wave together I have confidence in the future of this old world...
Every football team, so the strategists say, has sme particular game in which it suddenly "finds itself", becomes aware of its latent power and uses it as it has never used it before. Then and then only does a team begin to function as a powerful unified machine. Three years ago it was Centre, two years ago Penn State and last year, less decisively, Holy Cross...
...education reported that less than 25% of Jewish children receive religious education, and proposed a national committee to survey progress and distribute information on this subject. Champions of orthodoxy protested, fearing invasion of parental rights. Agreement was reached upon the formation of an education committee of purely informative function...