Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the Allies had got themselves enmeshed in the Westwall offensive, something seemed to happen. Weather was admittedly bad for ambitious air operations. Ground commanders pressed hard for more air support of infantry to supplement their artillery. For one reason or another, tactical air power turned largely to bombing of pillboxes, strafing of enemy gun positions...
Weekly seminars with faculty members supplement the curriculum, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Merle Fainsed, associate professor of Government, have already addressed the newsmen in Tuesday afternoon meetings. The follows have also met in bi-weekly dinners, with Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Republic, James Reston of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Llewellyn B. White of the Office of War Information attending...
...found what is by all odds the fastest test for pregnancy urine yet discovered. He merely adds sulfuric acid to a urine extract and waits about three hours to see if it turns orange color-indicative of pregnancy. Dr. Guterman reported his method in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Supplement. He claims that his test is as accurate as the well-known one-to two-day Friedman (rabbit) test...
...Association also called for approval of the Bretton Woods International Bank, along with an "adequate" currency stabilization plan. To supplement the lending power of the International Bank, the Association would boost the capital of the Export-Import Bank and the RFC, and would open the U.S. door to private loans abroad by dropping the Johnson...
Army education authorities reported last week that in Accra, on the African Gold Coast, two G.I.s had refused furloughs so that they would not miss their classes at the "G.I. College of Accra." From Accra to Adak in the Aleutians, in informal Army and Navy "colleges" which supplement the correspondence courses sent out by USAFI (TIME, Feb. 21), servicemen are studying everything from reading to calculus. Some of the 700,000 students to date...