Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beyond the point where a straggling few of this same group huddled together for mutual protection at a table in a Freshman dining hall while their reason d'etre gazed with kindred timidity from the other end of the room. In short the Advisors are at last beginning to function in their proclaimed capacity and with a modicum of cooperation from their advisees in the form of normal curiosity and absence of reticence are in a position to do the entering class invaluable service. If the ins of college life are not demonstrated with all the clarity desirable, at least...
...what she thought of Lindy!" Into the midst of the furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady, Mrs. M. W. Pangburn, immediately fainted, because, as she explained later, "the prospect of meeting the wife of a President" had caused her to lose consciousness. This was the first Black Hills social function that Mrs. Coolidge had attended. That she chose to make her debut at a meeting of the Fortnightly Club was due, not to her favoritism, but to the fact that the members of this club had been the first courageous enough to invite her. ¶On the 21st birthday...
...were to submit to the Federal Reserve Board at Washington for approval, a rediscount rate for their particular region. The Board was presumed able only to veto, not to initiate rates. By refusing to approve a rate offered by a regional bank, it could make that bank unable to function. The Board had practically full power...
...together as they appear to audiences on the burlesque circuit, doing a waltz buck while a brazen orchestra shatters her sentiment into cheap, broken rhythms. "Can you make it?" she asks under her breath of her tottering spouse, snapped out of a month's debauch for this merry function. "I can-if you'll stick, kid." "I'll stick-always," she answered, and as the curtain falls the audience knows that she belongs forever to the blah of her man, to the hurdy-gurdy of the footlights...
...larger shafts, five miles deep, could be dug by laborers in heat proof, air-cooled suits, and connected by long horizontal passages. At five miles, a heat between 400° and 450° would be obtained. Capable of producing 4,500 horsepower, this type of heat mine would function for 1,-000 years, would cost about 30 millions but never need an ounce of fuel...