Word: functions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...drove home his advice by a series of humorous anccdotes, mostly taken from his own experiences. He pointed out the importance of thorough preparation in law as well as in military matters, urged the necessity for every law student to have his technical terms accurate, and stated that the function of the Law School was to "teach students how to learn...
...future" at Winnipeg. The prohibition had to be removed. (4) By collecting information of worldwide conditions of supply and demand, and expressing them in prices, the speculators make it safe for farmers, millers, and others to rely on the prices as guides for further production. This "directive function" of speculation is perhaps most important of all. A fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given it, is that speculators, by making an active market, make it safe for banks to lend on goods that are being carried over to a later season--make bank loans "liquid...
...food preparation and service is of great importance. In many wars more men have died of contagious disease than of wounds. Many battles on the other hand, have been lost by a failure of the supply of ammunition--not ultimate supply but supply at the crucial moment. One function of the supply officer is to provide required ammunition without overloading men and wagons...
...importance of the technical function in war must be remembered, and men working in medicine, in munitions factories, or conducting business organizations necessary to the military efficiency of the country are of more service continuing their work than they would be in the trenches...
...information. The movement of troops, the forwarding of supplies, in fact, all orders are transmitted over the Signal lines of information. It is also a duty of the signal corps to collect military information, and in the present war, the recording of the pictorial history of war is a function of this corps. An English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They are called 'the main lines of communication' and over their lines day and night pass...