Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth Annual Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Summer Dinghy Regatta held last Sunday in the Charles River Basin, the "summer supplement" of the Harvard Yacht Club placed third in a field of 16 colleges...
During the three and one-half week food economy program in the dining halls, the savings totaled 87 cents per man, enough to buy 5,220 calories of food, substantially enough to supplement the diet of a European student for about three days...
...Mencken, American Language, Supplement I: "Shambles is a very old word in English. ... In American usage it has now come to signify any sort of 'very great, perhaps complete disorder, confusion or destruction...
...medical talent allied to the University through Graduate School instructors and faculty members. The plan is in use at midwestern colleges and has provided for inexpensive care to the student body in a broad area covering nearly all the diagnostic and surgical services. A University-maintained pharmacy would supplement these services and go toward the institution of a Health Service closely attuned to the needs and capacities of most students. Clearly these improvements should be considered as an integral part of any expansion of the Hygiene Department...
Even on barren island outposts like Ascension or Iwo Jima the G.I. had his garden sass. Hydroponics made it possible. Before World War II this scientific art of growing plants without soil in chemically treated water had been mostly Sunday supplement stuff. But the Army had read the supplements. It put hydroponics to work...