Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hornot died in the great air-sea battle of Santa Cruz in the Southwest Pacific, but most of her men lived to avenge her. All but 120 of her complement of 2900 fighting men were rescued before American torpedoes and shells delivered the stricken carrier from her agony...
...lover of things nautical and of sailing ships in particular, I rise in protest against your description of the Gertrude L. Thebaut as a "full-rigged schooner" [TIME, Dec. 14]. Webster defines full-rigged as "having three or more masts, each with its full complement of square sails." As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition. A full-rigged schooner would be as anomalous as a two-legged centipede...
...step has been taken. The CRIMSON is a logical complement to the existing Harbus News, each having definite advantages in its sown field. A good number of the students are willing to be shown. It is now up to the CRIMSON to show them...
...apartment in which he died was the perfect complement to his publishing business and an index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party...
Just as diverse is the complement of Dunster House, the smallest of the lot. It has the largest library and its inhabitants manage even so to engage in every sort of activity, even to the point of staging an annual bicycle race to Wellesley...