Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communities in the United States shelter as large a collection of anonymous scholars as that area vaguely designated as Harvard Square, where hundreds of men learned in their special fields live in comparative seclusion. Their function is vital to posterity, but it is often a thankless job so far as they personally are concerned. Any movement which can draw these men out and give them an opportunity to share their knowledge with the public and earn its immediate appreciation, not only renders a service to society, but repays the scholars in part for their labor and lends them added incentive...
...some way with the English Department, and might even be placed officially under its aegis. But to find students sufficiently mature to be able to study journalism without previous college background would be difficult. Good journalism requires background; and it is therefore more adaptable as a graduate school function than as a college department. However, it should be said in dealing with this alternative that some additional English courses on elementary journalism and its origins might be a welcome change for the curriculum of many students...
...Ethiopian situation was a function of the rebirth of Germany," asserted the instructor. Always treated as the inferior Latin brothers of the French, Italy at first, in her desire to carve out a new "Roman Empire" in the Mediterranean, came into conflict with the German national expansion of similar character...
...Readers Raymond and Chittenden ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form...
...been evacuated by the Germans-of Belgium's King Albert and Crown Prince Leopold, who is now King. In 1935 Britain's present King George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York returned to Brussels to represent his father, George V, at the funeral. Today...