Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable complement to the wartime phenomenon of brief home leaves from France has been the desire of young soldiers to pack into a short time enough fun to provide months of front-line memories. Nightclub and theatre promoters have been quick to capitalize-until by last week nudity had become almost a commonplace in English entertainment...
...feel that the business training and the many connections we have had with business men while working on the business board will be a valuable complement to our studies when we leave college." they agreed...
...another Nazi-Bolshevik trade treaty had been signed which, Nazi officials boasted, would give Germany all the imports she needs to defeat the purposes of the Allied blockade. The Russians were not less boastful in pointing out that Russia's raw materials and Germany's industrial plants complement each other...
...British destroyer, the Exmouth, struck a torpedo or a mine (probably far out in the North Sea) and sank with her entire complement, about 188 men. Thus in the war's 21st week Great Britain lost the fifth of the 185 destroyers she had when the blockade of Germany began last September. During the week German mines and torpedoes sank below-average tonnage: 8,111 Allied, 35,178 neutral. Meanwhile, the sea war did not change in character, but an announcement from Germany suggested how it may change...
Since the British said the three ships carried 130 men & officers (about 23 over their normal complement) and the Germans announced taking alive 30 from their two known victims, it appeared that the Seahorse perished with all hands, probably after bumping a mine, that the Starfish and Undine were crippled by depth charges or caught in nets. Like Great Britain, Germany is known to use antisubmarine nets of at least three kinds: 1) of heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets...