Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more serious is the fact that the Freshman class will continue to elect officers for whom there is no useful function. These officers will still fill the Jubilee and Smoker committees with their own friends and bask in the light of a prestige they do not deserve...
Prime purpose of the change will serve to give the Union Committee an added period in which to prosecute any additional Union activities for the benefit of the Class. At the same time the change will not interfere with any legitimate function of the three elected officers, and it will give the electorate additional time in which to consider its prospective candidates...
...know how it happened. Drawing is not a process of clear and deliberate thinking, it seems to me a function of eyes and nerves. . . . As a centipede may not be quite aware which of its limbs it puts forth first and which is to follow, I am quite unable to explain to myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different-but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art. I am merely...
...block in hi's program of utility simplification as Electric Bond & Share. United not only is one of the biggest utility holding companies but it is the utility operator's conception of a beneficent holding company. It exercises no control over the operations of its subsidiaries, its function is wholly financial. In an industry where it is necessary to invest about $6 to do $1 worth of business (U. S. utilities last year had total gross sales of $2,200,000,000 from a fixed capital of $14,370,000,000) financing is vital. Therefore top utility...
...editors of the "Oldest College Daily,"' and the editors of every other college publication, our own included, should ask themselves if this code still obtains, if American college journalism still serves a useful function; and still warrants its perpetuation...