Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligent than dogs. The "Seeing Eye" has not found males markedly inferior to females, uses about three bitches to two dogs. "Seeing Eye" dogs do not, as many people suppose, memorize the blind man's route. The blind man must know his own route. The dog's function is to use his eyes, warn his master when the route is impassable...
Invitations have also been sent to the undergraduate bodies of 43 American colleges and to Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna, Tokyo, Peiping, Heidelberg, the Sorbonne, and Melbourne. Student delegates will represent these institutions at a reception on Wednesday afternoon, September 16, a function which will formally open the Undergraduate Celebration...
...particular book or books will be stressed, officials pointed out. The aim of the exhibit is to relate the displays to the University's function of education. The human side of source materials will be featured. "We are not interested in singling out specific books or particular titles," Mr. Walton said. "We are seeking to show groupings of books and their influence on education in the broader sense...
Feeding the ever-active muscles of the heart as any other tissue in the body is fed are two arteries about the diameter of a soda straw. If anything happens to these coronary arteries, the heart muscles are quickly poisoned and cease to function. Result: Death. The most serious thing that can happen to these arteries is sudden clogging of the blood flow. This may occur when: 1) a blood clot floating through the circulatory system (i.e., embolus) jams in a coronary artery; or 2) disease so roughens the smooth wall of a coronary artery that blood cells accumulate like...
...primary purpose of Dean Birkoff's European trip this summer is to speak at the Oslo International Mathematics Congress which opens on July 13, and he will probably not spend more than a few days at Heidelberg. He will not lecture there, his official function being merely to extend Harvard greetings...