Word: augments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether the masterworks of the past are documents, to be classified, analyzed in the post-mortem manner, of the laboratory, or "the precious life-blood of a master-spirit treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life", a life of which we may gratefully partake to augment our own substance. The signs are everywhere decipherable that the universities and critics of today have the sickness of an acquisitive society of the intellect; they need to be more respectfully, curiously inquisitive before the monuments to the past. English 15 is the course for those who might be called the sublimely...
...flashed a cable from President Paley to his First Vice President Edward Klauber in Manhattan. Said President Paley in effect: "Big political news will be breaking before November. Election campaigns will approach fever heat in September and October. National issues will loom large in the public eye. Let CBS augment its facilities for reporting that news by presenting 'The March of Time' two months earlier as a sustaining feature entirely at its own expense...
...have played with the 150's this year are expected to join the House teams next fall. Class teams were done away with last year, and the present action will serve similarly to augment the number of men reporting for House football...
...night-flying hours and some day qualify as a mail pilot. Pilot Lou Strickler, 18, flew in the moonlight one night last week around Latrobe Airport, Pa. Three friends who had been taking turns hopping with him waited on the ground, their automobile headlights marking the field to augment the airport's meagre lights. Pilot Strickler came in for a landing, "felt his plane hit something," learned to his horror that he had mowed down and killed his three friends
...parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served to protect the thriving Enquirer against invasion of the morning field by outside competition- possibly Hearst. Year ago shrewd General Manager William F. Wiley contracted for United Press and Universal Service to augment the Enquirer's Associated Press franchise. Then, according to report, Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, son of the founder (and publisher also of the Washington Post), won an agreement from Hearst to stay out of Cincinnati for at least three years. Thus, when the Commercial Tribune lost even...