Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John's College's President Stringfellow Barr planned to supplement the college's 100 classics with a new course in the theory and maintenance of gasoline engines...
Last summer's work camp was a continuation of an idea which was formulated several years ago by a number of Harvard and Dartmouth students. These men opened the William James Camp in Sharon, Vermont, which was designed to supplement and perhaps displace the C. C. C. program. The camp hoped to carry into practise the ideas of William James, who said that modern civilization needed to provide young men with a "moral equivalent...
...rest while another took his place. Thus in about three hours, through 8,000 miles of air, at a cost for the telephone bill of about ?400 ($1,300) a week, TIME'S entire Foreign News and World War sections have been transmitted for publication as a supplement to the Telegraph...
Britain, on the other hand, sits comparatively pretty. Though she must import all but 5% of her oil, she has access by sea to perhaps 85% of the world's supply. Her consumption is 100,000,000 barrels a year, her problem, transportation. To supplement her own huge tanker fleet she has added Norwegian, Dutch, French and Belgian tonnage, as well as 80 U.S. tankers...
...wind-generated electricity will be turned as a secondary supply into the lines of Central Vermont Public Service Corp. Windless days are no worry, because the machine is built not to replace but to supplement present sources of electricity. When the wind turbine is running full-blast the power company can reduce its consumption of dammed waters, saving them for dry or windless spells. Engineers' big problem, in fact, was to outwit too much wind: a sudden gale could raise the turbine's output in three seconds from 1,000 to 3,000 kilowatts, overloading an unbraked generator...