Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judson C. Welliver, former newspaper man, was installed at the White House by President Harding as "Chief Clerk." His function has been to prepare material for speeches by the President, write letters, etc. Last week he announced that he had accepted a position with the American Petroleum Institute (at a better salary). Mr. Coolidge said he was very sorry to part with Judson Welliver...
...text of the article will doubtless be recorded by the President's Air Inquiry Board, and the Court cf Inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster will probably make much of it. In speaking the praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently answered the statements of those who said that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence...
Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner. This is also the conception of Manager Gatti-Casazza; their consultations are cooperative, for where Mr. Kahn's Lincoln-waits?there waits harmony...
...taken seriously. In the past it was often considered a sport, and it was played for fun in a slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology...
...novel liason with European politics, a tangible and lasting connection with international affairs through the League covenants, the interest of the government at Washington in the creation of some kind of court was repeatedly evidenced. In truth, the survival of that expression is the Court of Arbitration still functioning at the Hague. But this is merely a panel of eminent jurists who function as consulting lawyers and cannot be considered a real court. The need for a means of creating a legislative digest of the growing international opinion on policies of peaceful relationship still exists. And only such a tribunal...