Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prejudices. ¶ To act rather than decide. ¶ To disregard jurisdictional limits. ¶ To do what will get by. ¶ To rule arbitrarily-or at the other extreme, to fall into a perfunctory routine. ¶ To exercise of jurisdiction by deputies. ¶ To mix up the advocate's function, the judge's function and the enforcement function...
...cold. By repetitions of this cycle, Dr. Giauque (pronounced gee-oke) has reached one-tenth of one degree above absolute zero. This is the U. S. cryogenic record. Since no imaginable thermometer could record such cold, it is calculated by the Curie law which gives magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature...
...defined by Promoter Knoble's smoothly professional copy, function of the Alliance is first to collect information about the problems of the middle class and then to DO SOMETHING. What Cliff Knoble proposed to do, first for Detroit and then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
...Williams, still zealous at 52, says: "The study of vitamins] may some day be regarded as rivaling in importance the discovery of micro-organisms as causative factors in disease. . . . It would be misleading to suppose that thiamin is the only vitamin which possesses a universal or nearly universal function in living cells. . . . [But] the lack of no other accessory substance leads to so early, so profound and so universal disaster...
...ordinary workmen, Hollywood screenwriters compare in rarity and price as a window full of diamonds compares to a coal bin: only about 350 screenwriters function at any time; their wages are $150 to $5,000 a week. But they enjoy labor troubles in proportion to their pay. The National Labor Relations Board last week had to hold an election to find out which of two major screenwriting labor organizations, that for two years had bickered with each other, shall henceforth undertake the eternal bickering that goes on between screenwriters and producers...