Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human eye does not function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...
Henceforth, although Germany is still bound to disarmament by the Versailles Treaty, she will not be under the harsh supervision of Allied officers. Instead League civilians will function, if and when any League-member-state shall enter a protest with the League that Germany is arming again...
...undergraduate daily which limits itself merely to news, and closes its columns to thoughtful innovation is on the way to becoming a gazette of events--an admirable thing in itself but hardly as interesting as a more inclusive sheet. Undoubtedly the first function of a newspaper is, as the Yale paper says, "to purvey news." An almanac, however, performs the same duties but almanacs seldom hold the reader tense. "No more reforms" is a neat phrase; but heaven help an unformed formed Yale...
Hindenburg's Letter: "The Reich's foreign and domestic political situation demands a strong workable Government. A Government will be able to function more successfully if it is supported by a majority in the Reichstag.* The construction of such a majority through inclusion of the Left parties is for the present at least impossible. Efforts to create a Government supported only by the middle parties have failed...
...intended," Professor Corwin says, "that this test shall supercede any of the present means of judging preparedness for college work. Its use will be tentative at first, and until experience has shown its proper function: How much and what aid it will give to the examiner is still problematical...