Word: complements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negroes & Mongols. To complement the Negro on the south wall, Rivera painted on the north wall an oriental woman, with a white fetus cuddled in a transparent uterus. The white races, Diego elaborately maintains, are actually half-Mongol, half-Negro...
...Several other precipitation tests also commonly used are based on the same principle. The true Wassermann, a "complement fixation" test, often serves as a court of appeal, is used to confirm positive reactions from other tests...
...they have a full load. They try to book several weeks in advance, but in many cases they do not fill up a flight by take-off time. When this happens they borrow passengers from other independent lines or delay the flight until they can round up a full complement. With no empty seats, the non-scheduled lines are able to cut down their cost easier than the scheduled lines...
...saner side, Leverett runs a dance band, a forum, a darkroom and Lens League, a Gilbert-and-Sullivan operatic society, a glee club, a marching band, and the usual complement of committees...
Jane Greer plays an erratic, not-too-bright parolee who gives up shoplifting in favor of chintz, pressure cookers, and Dennis O'Keefe. Her portrayal of a charmingly brashful girl is excellent. O'Keefe, as a columnist who jilts the parole officer to marry the parolee, is a poor complement to Miss Greer. As the title suggests, she keeps some pretty dreary company in this film...