Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through Rio's streets, around the wide sickle of Rio's bay, and up into the misty hills beyond, the bi-Presidential party rode 30 miles into the country to attend the first function of the day, luncheon at the home of Tycoon E. G. Fontes. There Franklin Roosevelt had his first opportunity to charm the denizens of high South American society, including Senora Vargas and her two daughters...
...fashion. However, if it happens to be the policy of the paper to devote considerable space to national or state news, it should be allowed to report it as it sees fit, always provided that it handles only material that it knows about. Perhaps not quite as important a function, but certainly one that cannot be overlooked, is that exercised by the editorial columns in reflecting student opinion. If this is to be stifled and strangled by bigoty and short-sightedness of the type that fostered the Teachers Oath Bill in Massachusetts; if the members of one of the country...
...addition of three sophomores who played on last year's championship freshman team: Reino R. Grondahl, Fred, W. Heckel III, and Ulysses J. Lupien, Jr. Though Coach Fesler has not chosen any definite starting lineup he has divided the ten most likely starters into two separate quintets which will function as interchangeable units throughout the season...
...another symptom of the breakdown of our economic system--the laissez-faire of the good Dr. Smith cannot function if the markets allow themselves to be unprotestingly victimized by shoddy goods. All good Republicans should unite in rising...
Further, there seems to be a real stratification within the Department. It is possible to receive adequate instruction from the professors, who are relatively secure in their position and enjoy qualified independence. But the instructors and tutors, concentrators believe, are, by and large, unable or unwilling to fulfill that function which their title suggests. Back of this generality lies the crucial fact that the young men of the Department must drive themselves unceasingly toward goals in research if they wish to be reappointed. The type of student attracted to Physics, even more than the general run, is seriously intent upon...