Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls' club known as the "Wild Women from Sarah Lawrence" are joining with the newly organized combined Harvard chapter of the A. F. of L., C.I.O., the left wing of the Liberty League, and Wipers, Oilers, and Tenders Seamen's Union in sponsoring the model movement. The particular function of the women's auxiliary model Court has not been clearly defined as yet, but as Casper, in an exclusive interview at the Ritz Bar, said last night, "Our Plans are young yet; what we want is time to work out the broad general principles of this thing, before...
Helped by a crook named Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh), he enters a jewelry store, heaps all the clocks in one corner, then lets the burglar alarm function. When the Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help...
...control had returned across the Hudson River to New Jersey, that after a cleanup the bank would apply for reinstatement. Financially, the whole affair was distinctly small time. Bergen Trust's deposits were about $1,000,000. But FDIC's crackdown did remind bankers that its supervisory function is almost as important as its insurance function. After a warning a bank is allowed 120 days to mend its ways. Some 50 institutions have been warned in the past but all except Bergen Trust complied with FDIC's demands before the deadline...
...checkup made yesterday on the number of students attending Sundays' presidential tea throughout the year revealed an average figure between 15 and 35 for each such function. To date there have been 12, with a total attendance of 225 students...
...although the critical function of these articles is felt to be important, inasmuch as it is the only method at the present time by which the University receives any popular indication of how effectively its teaching staff is operating, the prime purpose of the Guide is to give the bewildered Freshman an idea of what undergraduates think of the work to which they are devoting their "four long years". The Guide is an expression of undergraduate opinion which is gathered at oral hearings and by questionnaires among the Freshmen, and its mistakes result not from editorial bias, but from...