Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps even better evidence of the way TIME and the newspapers complement each other is this: not long ago the editors of America's leading newspapers voted that they themselves find TIME the most interesting magazine they read-and the magazine most useful in their work...
Captain Andrew Marshall, Jr., last remaining member of last year's officer complement, was transferred to Camp Beale, Cal., last week. Captain Marshall came here last spring as Mil Sci 1 instructor; he has since instructed Mil Sci 3 and 4, served as detachment commander, and as acting adjutant and executive of the Regiment. He joins 1st Lts. Jim Gibbons '41, Joe Ambrose '42 and Jim Hays '42 in the 13th Armored Division at Beale...
...said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "no longer exist," promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. He also revoked the Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship en bloc to Jews in Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, said Giraud, Moslems and Jews must complement each other economically, "the latter working in his shop, the former in the desert, without either having advantage over the other, France assuring both security and tranquillity...
Lost: the U.S. Navy's largest submarine, the 14-year-old Argonaut. A giant mine layer, 381 feet long, displacing 2,710 tons, she carried two 6-in. guns, a complement of 102 officers & men. She was the sixth undersea craft which the Navy has admitted losing since the war began...
...Admiral von Scheer. She caught fire and her crew abandoned her. After two days 16 of her seamen, some wounded and one dying, boarded her, blazing as she was, and put out her fires. They got her in commission and sailed her by dead reckoning to Ireland. Her normal complement was 42 men. One single spark, at any moment, could have been the end of the 16 who manned her. Fifteen of the men, and their ship, are in service today...