Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lasting; what does make the difference is that the personality of such a man leaves a permanent effect. One of the major responsibilities of the University is toward its students; while research neglects teaching in favor of the advancement of knowledge, teaching, on the contrary, cannot ignore its obvious function. To the student, legendary teaching is the best type, and Bernard De Voto its eminent representative. What greater impulse can there be to justify the demand for his return...
Although Dr. Jung stipulates that there is "an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind," orthodox religionists will not thank him for the left-handed compliment. "What is usually and generally called religion," he declares, "is to such an amazing degree a substitute that I ask myself seriously whether this kind of 'religion,' which I prefer to call a creed, has not an important function in human society. The substitution has the obvious purpose of replacing immediate experience by a choice of suitable symbols invested in a solidly organized dogma and ritual. The Catholic Church maintains them...
Without the services of Charlie Lutz, who is suffering from an infected foot, the Fesler attack was never able to function smoothly. At the half the Tigers led 20-11 and held the Crimson to a scant nine points during the second period...
...bureau was closed in 1936 and 1937 because its free legal advice to poor people was thought to be in itself an illegal function, but since its reopening last Fall, the number of cases handled compares well with peak years before the break...
...Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function as a centre of all aviation in Germany. At one end of a surfaced, oval landing field, with 10,000-ft. runways, will curve a full mile of administration buildings, restaurants, hangars...