Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start of localized function-of specific organs with different jobs to do-was believed to occur later in embryonic development...
...fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...Italy) an arch-appeaser, though others who know him claim he is not pro-Fascist, merely pro-British, demanded to know if there was going to be "censorship." Promised the Prime Minister: "There will be no interference with the British Press by that department." He announced that its peacetime function would be to spread British propaganda overseas...
Storms of Childhood. After examining a large group of neurotics, Freud was surprised to discover that they all had one thing in common: a frustrated sex life. The neuroses," he declared, "[are] without exception disturbances of the sexual function...
...coffee store, directed a chamber of commerce, ran a wholesale business, managed a sanitarium and some textile mills, invented and marketed a successful bread-slicer. He joined the National Inventors Congress in 1928, became its paid president (at $3,600 a year) in 1931. His function is to aid, promote, protect, advise. Mr. Burns is proud when newspapers call him the "Nation's Gadget Chief...