Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secretions, not only is food absorption distorted, but gallstones and jaundice are apt to result. By having such secretion available as medicine for their patients (the Northwestern men last week continued their efforts to obtain it in pure & therapeutic form), doctors will be enabled to help impaired gall bladders function healthfully...
Frank D. Boynton of Ithaca, N. Y., president-elect of the N. E. A. department of superintendence: "President Lowell seems to think that the main function of the American high school is to send its pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...
Eldo Lewis Hendricks of Warrensburg, Mo.: "There is no greater problem in the field of education than the one-room rural school, and we have more than 150,000 of them. . . . Education fails to function in rural districts as certainly as democracy fails to function in a national election. . . . A teacher in the rural school gets $750 a year and a city teacher...
...history of Community Chests is lengthy, evolutionary, and increasingly notable. In 320 U. S. cities, Community Chests now function; the Association of Community Chests and Councils exists merely as a clearing house to inform communities how they may put Community Chests into effect in a purely local connection. Philadelphia is the largest U. S. city to have a Community Chest; in Cleveland, (which in 1913 organized a federation for charity and philanthropy generally regarded as the beginning of the modern Community Chest movement), Denver, Detroit and elsewhere they work with eminent success. Cincinnati's Community Chest, organized as such...
...What are we to do when a Government breaks down? Are we to see our American citizens butchered? I am not speaking of sporadic disorders but of cases in which the Government itself is unable to function. It is a principle of international law that under such circumstances another Government has the right, I will not say to intervene, but to interpose in a temporary manner to protect the lives and interests of its nationals...