Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the ranks of those who are not afraid to express appreciation and approval of "indifference" in its better sense. Attitudes are perhaps the most important and surely the most lasting part of that stuff called education which colleges dispense. There are those who think that a college should function only in the class room, but it is infinitely easier to believe with the multitude that a properly proportioned counter-poise of other interests can only widen and enlarge the value of undergraduate life. What is impossible is to attempt to mix the two; Athletics can contribute no more...
...bill has been given many and various interpretations. This example of efficient action by Congressmen in a matter of such a self-regarding nature has apparently been justly received with indignation by the press. It is a sad commentary on American politics that the highest governing body seems to function properly only when laying golden eggs for its own personal use. But there is yet another side to the affair...
...were wined and dined by one notable after another and wined and dined one notable after another in return. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick came over from Paris to stay with the Kelloggs; he too got wined and dined. The most important and at once the most brilliant of these functions was a dinner given by the Kelloggs in their ambassadorial home (Crewe House) to King George and Queen Mary. To this brilliant function, a long line of lords and ladies was invited-the Londonderrys, the Greys, the Oxfords and Asquiths, the Desboroughs, Lord Cowdray, Lady Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote...
Miss Ishbel MacDonald, who so excellently acted as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street for her father during his tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress. The periodical for which she is responsible is a weekly, The Optimist, called in a subtitle The National Organ of the Cheerful Giver. It is being run in the interest of the Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic...
...time has, however, not yet arrived when the different churches can function in one organization and any attempt prematurely to force such an arrangement would retard the cause of unity rather than...