Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever a great social function takes place, such as a brilliant feast, or some other prandial entertainment, the French are involuntarily reminded of the State banquet given by President Faure to the Tsar of All the Russias in 1896-a costly repast reminiscent of the Roi Soleil at the height of his glory...
...comrades around a common table." But if it had really afforded those advantages, would it have dwindled and passed? Undergraduates may be deaf to the call of the Muses, but they have a thirst unquenchable for college life and comradeship. Nowhere in America do the commons perform the function of "Hall" in an English college. The real fault with our system is that the commmons are not truly commons. Those who, in local opinion, constitute the socially elect dine in club or fraternity houses. At Harvard they number about one-third of each class, and the proportion is said...
This in a Manhattan hotel function room. When all the lights were snapped on, a distinguished company, some 1,200 strong, stood each behind his plate while grace was said. A moment later the company sat-ambassadors, whilom-ambassadors, bankers, editors, divines, a general or two ; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson, Authoress Ida M. Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Davis and many another...
...protractedness of cricket is due to the fact that the batsman is not obliged by rule either to make a run or be put out within any given number of bowls. His prime function is to prevent the ball from striking his wicket. Interminable defensive play ("stonewalling") is thus possible-as it would be in baseball if a batter were adroit enough to foul safely off an indefinite number of pitches...
During the War, aviators were tested primarily as to the integrity of these organs and their function. It was learned, however, that when the aviators flew above the clouds and finally came out, they might find themselves flying partially on one side so that they slipped readily into what was known as a "wing slip," and fatal accidents resulted from such causes. In other words, when the aviator was unable to orient himself in relation to the horizon by use of the visual sense, he could not depend for maintaining his balance on the knowledge coming to his brain from...