Word: functioning
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...specific function of the coronagraph is to determine the wavelength distribution of the corona's ultraviolet rays in order to derive temperatures within the corona...
...finished pieces of a constitution; for researching student governments of other colleges and past student governments at Harvard, and for publicizing its actions and intentions. Decisions on such questions as the size of the government, the relationship between the government and Harvard's present student-faculty committees, and the function and purpose of the government should be made within the next month or so, many convention leaders say. The most optimistic of them say the entire process of writing the constitution, presenting the document to students for ratification, convincing students to vote for it, and holding the first elections...
...before. The picture is at its best when it shows youngsters trying out for admission to the school and when it gives some small idea of how hard they work in the course of their decade-long training program. There are also nice shots of the teachers and other function aries, living bearers of a great tradition which somehow seems to shine in their faces...
Technology-nuclear weapons, microcomputers, killer satellites-may have rendered some of Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...
...interview last week, Jewett explained that the function of Harvard's trips to prep schools is not primarily to recruit, but to provide each applicant the staff interview to which he is entitled. "If you're going to talk about would resources of time and effort, to have a hundred Exeter students making a trip down" is a much greater waste, he said. Harvard does not grant interviews to prep school students when they visit Harvard...