Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many will remember last year's game with the sensational punting duel between Gherke and the veteran Simendinger. The first half ended 0 to 0, then on a wet, slippery field in the second half the visitors made two mistakes and the Harvard backfield began to function until they finaly won by a comfortable margin...
...American Federation of Labor, holding its annual convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 8) proceeded to the business of grinding out resolutions. This is the main function of the convention. Literally scores of resolutions were proposed and referred to committees?95 in the first five days alone. Some of the more important resolutions proposed...
...Meyer would like to have American credit undertake this function at present. Just how far he would have Government agencies enter into and control this business is not evident. But apparently he believes that cooperative associations among the farmers can assume the major financial responsibility...
When " Al" Williams went round the course he felt sleepy. On turning pylons, his brain refused to function for several seconds owing to the terrific pressure of centrifugal force. On the last leg he forgot he had finished and went around once again. When he got out of his cockpit, his legs had gone to sleep. But he forgot sleep, fatigue, grease, wind and dirt, when his chief Admiral Moffett slammed his own hat on the pilot's head and asked some one to "give the boy a drink...
...speaker went on to discuss the conception of intellect which must function by suspending the act of becoming. It keeps a potentiality in its potential state until it wants it to become an actuality, he said. If intellect gave impetus to matter it would violate the principle of the conversation of energy...