Word: complements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman. The pangs of their readjustment strike deeply into the lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated, a saintly semimythical Princess and a courageous widow through whom the husband discovers how irrevocably he belongs to his wife...
...Wilson, J. H. Wright '27 is as admirable as Crichton and a lot nimbler C. S. Gross '27 would be a Grade-A prima donna in any college production, and but for the presence of the boy-friend Wilson, would lead this review; instead he is generously content to complement the other's piquancy with a substantial loveliness of his own, and to pile up the Harvard score by taking second place, or four points. And of the four leading squaws, not the least is A. M. Carrillo '26, who is doing yeo-man (F) duty in lobby and rotogravure...
...over all, 27 ft. 6⅝ in. in breadth, and has a surface displacement of 2,164 tons. Her speed on the surface is to be 21 knots, and submerged, 9 knots. Her complement will consist of 7 officers...
...aground on Blanquilla Reef on its return to Vera Cruz, Rebel capital. There are normally five different lights visible at that point, but it is believed that these were extinguished by the Rebels. The greater part of the crew was taken ashore. The cruiser, still manned by a small complement, lay in only two fathoms of water, and was feared to be a total loss. She is one of the older vessels of her type, belonging to the vintage...
...established one, and his data have been submitted to the French Academy. He objects to the idea that the origin of sex differences is to be found in differences in the male cells only, and claims that both the spermatozoon and the ovum have activating " microcellules." These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa. But Alich also believes that various other factors affect this potential energy of the germ cell, including potency, fatigue...