Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country's biennial anachronism, another "lame duck" Congress, prepared to sit in Washington. In the Senate, the anachronism was particularly visible. Instead of the clear Republican majority elected by the people in November, the Senate will function until March with Republicans and Democrats almost even in power, with the balance resting on insurgent Republicans and Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite dentist, Senator Shipstead...
...specific subjects to be treated in the series of five lectures have been announced as follows: lecture 1, "Why introduce men to Jesus?"; lecture 2, "How does Jeus function in religion?"; lecture 3, "What is the differentia in Christian Ethics?"; lecture 4, "Why a community of Faith?"; lecture 5, "Is Christianity Catholic...
...main I approve of the new "House" plan but it seems to me that some features of it have been greatly distorted and some reduced. I do not like the idea of having a merely social center made out of the proposed "House". To me its highest function is one of reward for scholastic attainment...
...second place if the "House" is used primarily as a social center it will not appeal to club men on the basis and it will be necessary to urge athletes and socially prominent undergraduates to join. Its true function is above merely a basis of pleasant companionship although that will naturally enter in as a result of the higher ideals...
...proposed that the Democracy start the groundwork of its 1932 campaign at once. "The most glaring example of our lack of efficiency," he said, "is that, we allow a political organization to lie practically dormant over such a long period. ... I see no reason why we can't function right through the whole four years...