Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disgusted by the interminable rhetoric of her Senators, but she is not one whit less insistent that we should join the league and do our share toward establishing and maintaining world peace. The issue has been made clear: either the United States must ratify and the league begin to function or a great race for armaments is inevitable...
...although the most difficult of all the problems of practical reconstruction, it was far from being the only one. Many others must be met and dealt with if we are to restore the economic and social conditions which existed before the war so that they will once more function successfully and for the benefit of the People of the United States and of mankind...
...more deeply as the year pass by. Theories of education differ, but the ideals remain unchanged. The preservation of the best things of the past, liberalized by a broad foresight into the future, and their application to the problems of the present, is by no means the least function of the American university and university men. In this work all college are united. The cause of one is the cause...
...must make sure," he said in concluding, "that educational means, methods, and results, including all that is involved in educational administration, is subject to perennial scrutiny. To do this is the function of the new school...
That a President of the United States should harshly dismiss his Secretary of State on the grounds of usurpation of executive power, because that Secretary called informal cabinet meetings during the President's incapacity, seems unthinkable. The government must function, and if the President is unable to direct its work the cabinet--those men whom the President himself has chosen as his official advisors--has not only the right but the duty to meet for discussion and interchange of ideas on pressing governmental affairs...