Word: augments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assistant deans will augment the Administrative Board's forces in University 4, under appointments which become effective today. William Bradford and Otis N. Minot '39 are the newest additions to the roster of deans, though they have been working at their present duties since the beginning of the term...
With the advent this week of the Seventh War Loan Drive, undergraduates here and conducting their own intensive war service campaign in an effort to augment the College contribution in blood donations, war bond sales, and collections of old clothing...
...Marine raider: "Either this Jap general is the world's greatest tactician or the world's most stupid man." Before noon on L-day (Loveday in the voice signal alphabet), the Jap general had lost Okinawa beyond reprieve. The tanks had arrived, the artillery was arriving to augment the planes and naval gunfire. The fleet's big guns had not been necessary in the immediate sense of killing Japs, but they had perhaps discouraged the halfhearted Jap general...
Missionary Iglehart believes that, no matter what happens, emperor worship cannot be wiped out for decades. Thus, those who favor lynching Hirohito should think twice, because "disgrace or harm to the present emperor would probably serve merely to augment the honor of the imperial line. ... No foreigner can hope to [disentangle] the politico-religious element in Japanese life...
Although he feels strange being away from his newspaper and family while resuming academic work, he believes that his studies in Government, Economics, Sociology and Psychology are necessary to bring him up to date and augment his practical knowledge. "It is necessary to be refreshed," he explains, "after a life of action...