Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discerning young Harvard man discovers, soon after moving into his college dwellings, that the angular, unpadded objects grandiosely labeled "room furnishings" offer excellent facilities for clothes-hanging and third degrees, but have few other practical uses. In order to secure a modicum of comfort he must supplement the University supplied furniture by making purchases in Cambridge or Boston. Unfortunately, furniture suitable to college rooms is not easily found and even when available can be acquired only by parting with a painfully large amount of money...
...four food cuts recently recommended by the Student Council will go into effect in the dining halls immediately, according to Aldrich W. Durant '02, business manager of the University. Meanwhile the Council food committee has gone ahead rapidly with plans to take voluntary collections in the Houses to supplement the estimated $600 to be saved by the food cuts and hopes to have members of the respective House committees seated in the dining halls to receive donations this week...
...Square. Placed fifteen to twenty feet away from the corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while as it is now, the law controls little aside from sight-seers and boy scouts...
...financial outlay involved in private construction, and admittedly any sizable project is expensive. But it is difficult to reason why M.I.T., with a housing shortage much less severe than Harvard's, has gone straight into the construction business and has erected 100 units of its own, which will supplement any windfall housing donated by the government. It is even more difficult to imagine that a comparison of the financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with the government, state, city, anybody...
Giving the lie to a widespread rumor which found its way into the supplement of a local basic English magazine, gridiron coach dick Harlow matched two teams out of the spring football candidates at Soldiers Field yesterday...