Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason is the appalling poverty of the average country cure. Dependent upon handouts for food and fuel, he often spends the winters in near-starvation, and it is becoming increasingly common for parish priests to solicit odd jobs in the neighborhood-house-painting, plastering, milking or shoe-repairing-to supplement the meager dole of the church. U.S. Catholic parishes are accustomed to supporting their priests, but the French, whose government paid the priesthood until 1905, have been conditioned to thinking of this as the responsibility of the state and keeping their hands in their pockets...
...friendly and otherwise accurate reference to my book, What I Said About the Press, that there were "few magazine comments on the book." Reviews have been published in Truth, the Spectator, the Listener, the New Statesman and Nation, Tribune, Time &Tide, Candour, the Economist and the Times Literary Supplement...
...thinks that its influence will grow even greater. Last week it began to distribute a 162-session physics course by the University of California's Harvey White -the first full-length, high-school physics course ever put on film. The series is to be used not merely to supplement the work of the high-school teachers. It is primarily meant for an estimated 14,000 high schools that have no trained physics teacher at all. With other such projects in the works, E.B.F. may not only become more and more influential, but for hundreds of schools it may well...
...known yet whether the tests in developed ability will replace or only supplement the current aptitude and achievement tests, if they prove effective...
...small intestine). A fluoroscope can keep track of the pill's position in the body, while a receiver picks up the FM signals, presents them to the examiner on an oscilloscope as graph waves. Prospects are good that the transmitter will replace awkward, uncomfortable tubes now used to supplement X-ray examination. The pill broadcaster may help spy out certain hard-to-diagnose ailments, e.g., colitis (inflammation of the large intestine...