Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT I-H. L. Mencken-Knopf...
...those who then believed Einstein, his equation explained how radioactive metals could keep on shooting out particles and radiation for millions of years, and how the sun could continue shining for even longer ages. It also aroused Sunday-supplement dreams of driving an ocean liner around the world by releasing the atomic energy locked in a cupful of water...
...ground level, a radar beam is scattered by ground irregularities. For this reason, contrary to Sunday-supplement predictions, it is not practical as an anticollision device on autos or railroads...
...Designed to provide means for covering more ground than would ordinarily be possible, the reading program will supplement each of the three undergraduate curricula proposed last spring by the Course of Study Committee and accepted by the faculty," the News Digest reports...
...Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement American Weekly was a peace move: he called off the old war between his weekly and Hearst's local feature editors...