Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long steel whip, less pleased perhaps by the premature revelation of its plans for an apron at an altitude above that at which any bomber in the world can now function...
...pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession." But he is anxious not to have his book misused for the benefit of young idlers: "The function of the home helper is a rather special one. . . . His task is to slay some lion in the path whose fierce mien is absorbing a dangerous amount of nervous energy. . . . The task of the parent instructor begins when the child is stuck. Never before...
...last week's proceedings were devoted to speeches. There was a "most interesting and beautiful social function" in the "most beautiful botanical gardens" of the University of Pennsylvania on a most sticky, humid afternoon, a night club show, a church meeting, and an election. Winner in a spirited campaign for Association president was wizened, spry little William Lepré Houston, long a law professor at Washington's Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston...
...Andrea Majocchi, described his visit to the Clinic:* "The organization and scrupulous division of labor are basic features of every truly American institution. Hotels, hospitals, public offices, warehouses-all work toward the same end: avoiding as much as possible the weakening and separation of resources and means. All function in the same way. The same working methods obtain at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, the Chicago stockyards, and St. Mary's Hospital at Rochester...
...shipments: produce from California and Florida, coal from the Allegheny fields to the coast. The Norfolk & Western, the Virginian, the Chesapeake & Ohio find it possible to operate 120-car coal trains with a single powerful locomotive. These super-engines would represent a capital loss if deprived of their prime function of pulling long trains. The roads affected by the 70-car proposal figure that it would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that considerations of employe safety make it necessary. They say that hand signals cannot easily be seen from end to end of long trains...