Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamental aim of the grants is to supplement teachers' salaries and make the profession more attractive to professors and instructors who may be forced to leave the field because of economic necessity...
...CERTIFIED MAIL system will start soon unless the Post Office Department gets serious objections from the public. To supplement current registered mail (minimum charge: 30O, new system will use a special 15? stamp to entitle senders to a receipt proving that the letter was mailed. The post office will file a delivery receipt and give one to the sender for an extra 7?. Letter writers who want insurance will have to pay registered-mail rates as before...
...supplement the pledge system, students may for the first time make their contributions this year with future-dated checks. Under this system, Dorsen explained, students who have no money at present may write out checks dated a month or two in advance...
...through the New York Times in the morning. All you do is take some comically suggestive idea--a lady asking embarrassing questions at a stock-holders' meeting, for instance--and let it lead you into satirizing various topics found right there on the front page. Then, for good measure, supplement the jokes about businessmen moved to Washington and press sensationalism with a few vaudeville routines and technical novelties, and the rave reviews are as good as written. You play is sure to run at least a year on Broadway--and perhaps two, if your technique is as polished as that...
...receiving a salary based upon the amount of work he does for it, the peasant on the kolkhoz is allowed to have a small plot of land upon which he can grow his own products and raise livestock. He can sell this produce on the open market to supplement his income. The peasant, as might be expected, generally prefers to till his own plot rather than the cooperative...