Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plebiscite and their individual wishes determined, but care should be taken not to overburden them with excessive routine duties in House organization, lest their efficiency and enthusiasm on the Council be impaired. Three more seniors would then be appointed at large to fill out the complement of eleven. Juniors would continue to be elected and appointed from the whole college. Thus, without expanding in number, the Council would have a membership interlocking with the ruling bodies of all the Houses, and appropriate jurisdiction to deal with House as well as college problems...
Said Brigadier General Frank Thomas Hines, administrator of Veterans' Affairs: "The peace of the world is in perilous plight. . . . The plans which have been developed [in this country] are for the mobilization of industry, the technological sciences, and agriculture. . . . The present complement of medical and dental officers will have to be increased from around 1,216 regulars and 18,778 reservists to a corps consisting of approximately 40,000 medical and dental officers...
...evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the germ plasm). Biologist Huxley sides neither with those who would explain everything by natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding slowly and grinding small, has few other attributes that a civilized religion would call divine. It is efficient in its way-at the price of extreme slowness and extreme cruelty. But it is blind and mechanical...
...writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with him resoundingly. In Charles MacArthur he found his perfect complement: together they produced the 1928 smash...
...characters are bewildered," continued Mr. Odets. "The best laid plans go wrong. The sweetest human impulses are frustrated. No one leads a normal life here, and every decent tendency finds its complement in sterility and futility. Our confused middle-class today, which dares little, is dangerously similar to Chekhov's people. Which is why the people in Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost (particularly the latter) have what is called a 'Chekhovian quality.' Which is why it is so sinful to violate their lives and aspirations with plot lines. Plots are primer stuff, easily learned...