Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roles-parts that have only the most peripheral value or semi-farcical character. They pass and repass, moreover, among lighting effects that involve the approach of dusk or onset of night, or sound effects of offstage dance music and distant trains. Such mood props can be valuable when they supplement the right storytelling and speech; but in The Traveling Lady they are often merely sentimental substitutes for them. There is no drive or fiber to the play, but rather a curious sense of wordiness without any gift for words...
Student association member Samuel McM. Keen 2Dv, is preparing a written reply to Coffee's charges. "Coffee's article misrepresents the purpose of the administration," he commented last night. "The University does not in any way mean to supplant the study of history here. It merely wishes to supplement the historical side of religion with other important and previously neglected aspects...
...indeed, of the Dartmouth intellectual atmosphere, comes unwittingly from the Great Issues administrations themselves. In a mimeographed pamphlet the committee writes; "During the last two years of college the student body tends to be split into groups and as often as not choosing electives to augment rather than supplement their major work. This results in the failure of many students to maintain a broad awareness of the basic issues of our times which they will soon have to confront as active citizens...
...little is known of the Goffe's. Perhaps they followed the Peyntree clan to Connecticut. But by 1651, the end house on Cow Yard Row went up for sale, and President Dunster added it to the growing College. It was renamed Goffe College, and turned into a dormitory to supplement the space available in Eaton House and a new building to the rear called the Old College. On the first floor there was a "Great Hall" and a lean-to kitchen; two chambers filled the second floor, and above them were three gabled garrets. For the needier schoolers, there...
Along with a special issue on American literature, the London Times Literary Supplement last week paid the U.S. a handsome compliment. "Nowhere," it announced, "in the modern world is there a more rewarding literature than that which America has to offer." But in its ensuing lengthy analysis, the Times also had some sharp observations-and a few reservations-about U.S. culture and character in general. Among them...