Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as the midyear examinations are over, one of the last remaining vestiges of a political controversy in Harvard will once more start to function. This is the Freshman election. Just as the Union Committee has risen in the past few years to a position where it represents the Freshman class, so now the time has come to abolish the February elections which have become both meaningless and disrupting...
...Certainly there seems to be little common understanding of the function and management of money in our personal and social living, of taxation, of profit as a factor in business and as a motive of industrial enterprise, and of the relations between government and individual initiative in promoting production and employment," he said...
...long as the lawmaking mills grind, the fog of uncertainty mocks the industrial planner. Business needs more than a mere breathing spell from legislative experimentation. It needs positive, reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment. As it is, the businessman is the subject of more legislative concern than the criminal. The latter enjoys far less uncertainty of the laws prescribing his operations. The criminal laws are stabilized...
...generators was entirely too decrepit to function. By next day three others had started, but one promptly broke down when an oil line clogged. The fifth, Superintendent Fenstermacher was surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they...
...President Gay made good his promise. He appointed a committee "to consider all aspects of a further development of the organization and administration of the Exchange, including, among others, the advisability of making the presidency a salaried office, of transferring greater administrative responsibility to executives, and of making the function of standing committees supervisory rather than administrative, and to report its recommendations ... as promptly as possible...