Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inch telescope, the focus of the Observatory facilities since 1843. Despite electrical panels installed a year ago, the telescope is obsolete for modern research. But is is useful for demonstrations at Observatory open houses and Astronomy I classes. Two other smaller telescopes of seven-and-half and nine inches complement the Garden Street equipment. A brick administration and office building stands in contrast to the weather-worn observatory dome...
...Youssef, theoretically, was in a strong position. Until he approved Faure's plan, Morocco's loyal nationalists would not give the French an inch. Yet Ben Youssef was miserable in exile: his Buick had been stolen, he had less than half his usual complement of 40 concubines with him, and he daily complained about drafts in the hotel. Three sessions with Catroux were enough to convince His Majesty where his best interests lay. Ben Youssef agreed to broadcast a message ordering his faithful subjects to avoid more violence...
With the deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...
...President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation's needs. Said President Ruiz Cortines: "The objective of the government . . . is clear: to complement, advise and stimulate enterprise, not to supplant it." As a stimulating start, Mexico offered utilities more government loans, help in getting U.S. Export-Import and World Bank loans and-most welcome of all-rate boosts...
...puttering in his littered laboratory, interrupted often to accept awards and honors (most notable: a knighthood from George VI and, with Florey and Chain, a Nobel Prize), other antibiotics poured from researchers' vials. Some, like streptomycin for tuberculosis, proved to have sharply defined powers that penicillin lacked; others complement it with a spectrum of antibacterial activity...