Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspaperman Clinton W. Gilbert takes with an almost judicial scrupulosity his function of measuring out a daily mead of praise. Last week he decided that Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton had been unfairly treated during his recent visit home (TIME, April 5 CABINET). So this is what Mr. Gilbert judged...
...whole administrative system of Soviet Russia is made difficult to understand by the deliberate care with which perfectly well understood relationships are disguised under new and strange names. Thus M. Rykov is not, literally speaking, "Premier" but "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars," who perform exactly the function of ministers in an ordinary cabinet...
...guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...
...address before the Beacon Society Saturday night which, anomalous as it may seem, won the enthusiastic approval of representatives of Dartmouth. Amherst, and Yale, who commended the attitude of Director Bingham in the warmest terms. The diners were hardly prepared for this point of view from an official whose function it is supposed to be to develop winning teams at whatever cost, but as Mr. Bingham explained his philosophy surprise turned to admiration for it was recognized that here was a man destined to dignify college sports and to assure them a standing in the curriculum which they have been...
...conventional people interested in education at Harvard have little to chagrin them in the more sensational sentiments of their supposedly more radical and more progressive contemporaries. The plan which Dr. Meiklejohn suggests is, in a sense, a part of the proposed, and in some respects, of the already functioning Harvard system That Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years in so far as those needs...