Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions† helped make Color Flight an intensely exhilarating work of cinemart. It was made entirely by Len Lye himself, took nine...
...shown a tendency to procrastinate, undergraduate opinion has been forced to find other channels of expression--to wit: a printed broadside about non-House men. The very existence of this brochure is in itself a criticism of the Council, an indication that it does not completely fulfill its supposed function. Yet this apparent failure is more the fault of the Constitution which governs the Council than of the individuals who are its members...
Fingers-from Toes. Dr. Herbert van Heekeren Thatcher of Portland, Ore., told his colleagues how he mends severed finger tendons without impairing the grasping function of the hand. First he slips a stainless steel rod, three-sevenths of an inch in diameter and curved to fit the natural bend of the finger, into the narrow sheath which encloses the torn tendon...
...students who regard college as a very fine club, those who mistakenly believe that they are fitted for executive or other intellectual work, and who are actually excellent manual or physical workers (and we by no means underrate or disparage such ability, but such instruction is not the function of a university...
...must be granted, of course, that such an extension is antagonistic to the conception of freshman tutorial as a means of guiding the advanced work of exceptional students. Perhaps, in the final analysis, the institution of these modifications depends upon a decision as to which of the two functions is the more important; and this decision rests upon University Hall. Since, however, the potentialities exist for aiding a large portion of the freshman class in a matter of extreme importance, the second function must be given full and deliberate consideration...