Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Navy added a postscript: nearly 1,000 men of the Helena's complement "today stand fit and ready to fight again." Some of them, oil-smeared and haggard, were picked up near the ship's grave. Others got to nearby islands, lived with the resourcefulness of good fighting men, were finally retrieved. They went to other ships, other stations. But they were still Helena men, would always...
...somebody' got 'plowed under' at Mackinac-either the so-called 'interventionists' or the so-called 'noninterventionists' of yesterday. The answer is that nobody got plowed under. There was a rational, tolerant meeting of patriotic minds upon wholly compatible philosophies of action which complement each other. That spells unity...
...mistake has been to rely too much on the Great Leader. . . . This dependence on authority is the exact complement of the irrational hatred of 'that man in the White House.' . . . The progressive movement is weak indeed if there is only one man in the country who can carry its banner. Worse things might happen to it in the long run than defeat of a fourth-term candidate, if that were necessary to stimulate it to ... a policy more fundamental than to continue to place a single champion in the Presidential chair...
...copies of Naval Communications borrowed from the First Naval district were the only equipment from which the Communications School could instruct its 125 students. The school now has all the essential publications necessary to train the complement of more than 1250 student officers now at Harvard, the largest of three Naval communications schools in the United States...
...change from winter uniforms to summer khaki was withheld until May 25 in order that the cadre and officers might wear the heavier uniform to complement the graduating class on the 24th and change to cotton on the folliwing day to match the dress of the new Officer Candidates...