Word: functioning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sides of the respirator are portholes through which nurses can serve Fred Snite with a bed pan, give him the enemas he constantly requires because his abdominal muscles do not function, bathe and massage him, change his bed and personal linen...
Less unrealistic than it seemed, Schmeling's stubborn conduct had a purpose: to force the New York State Athletic Commission, whose function it is to give prize fighting an air of respectability, to award him the title by default. Last week, when Schmeling went from Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio...
...recent action of postal officials in two Ohio cities refusing to accept for delivery packages of food for workers inside the Republic Steel plants, is but another evidence of how far the American government has departed from its true function of serving as an umpire to settle difference between conflicting sections of the community...
...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...
...skillfully neglected according to long practice and tradition. To thousands of others it was a day of much desired relaxation, whether in the Red Sox bleachers, on the open road, at a nearby beach, or in a movie theatre with washed air. To the remaining few was left the function of celebrating Memorial Day as those who designated it as a holiday expected...