Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three other centers supplement the headquarters, and spread out the system's manpower so that there are rarely more than forty workers in the main building at any one time. These offices, located in the Medical School, the Business School, and in the basement of Walter Hastings Hall, have repair shops of their own, and take most of the load off the central plant's facilities in their respective areas, besides serving as base points for the buildings and grounds maintenance crews...
...newly-organized student advisory program for incoming foreign undergraduates to supplement the faculty adviser's work should aid Miles in his new job. The International Activities Committee of the Student Council is now attempting to obtain enough student volunteers to set up the program...
With a design speed of between 150 and 200 m.p.h., the McDonnell XVi is built to carry four passengers (or two casualties and a medic) plus the pilot. As an Army or Air Force jack-of-all-work, it may be used, after further development, to supplement slower, shorter-ranged conventional small helicopters for liaison, rescue and reconnaissance missions. Its enthusiasts see the XV1 as a major advance toward easier civilian air transportation in the future; by 1965 travelers may be able to board convertiplanes at skyscraper platforms within blocks of their homes or offices, speed off for a visit...
...U.S.S.R. For a time, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. who left Britain for Moscow five years ago (TIME. March 14). was in command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects, there remains a big bottleneck in underdeveloped China: the highly specialized and refined engineering equipment required for mass production...
...comparable situation, the Fine Arts and Architectural Science Departments offer instruction in such applied subjects as painting and drawing. Thus a concentrator in either field can supplement his theoretical knowledge with more practical courses, while a music concentrator can receive no such aid from a Music Department which claims that instrumental instruction has no place in a liberal arts college. "We must have undiluted liberal; education here," one music professor recently said. "The spirit of a class and the spirit of a private lessons are quite different things." In this effort to prevent any so-called trade-school atmosphere...