Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first happy (well, some of them happy) thoughts about going back to school, TIME'S Education Department last week was busy preparing a special greeting (see advertisement in this issue). Part of the greeting is a new Summer Review Quiz on current affairs, a first-of-the-term supplement to TIME'S annual Current Affairs Test that is sent out early in the calendar year and is used in thousands of U.S. classrooms...
Brand believes that loans from the U.S. Government should supplement rather than replace U.S. private industry abroad. Says he: "I want to see American industry do the job. Instead of promoting state enterprises, let's foster the private side." As head of the Development Loan Fund, he intends to stress private enterprise more than the fund has done, give more loans to foreign businesses instead of governments. He also hopes to get more money from Congress. Right now the fund has $53 million to give out in loans, but the loan applications total $1.4 billion...
Grace Marks. With no opportunity to get a rounded education, with no academic atmosphere around him, and with his whole future hanging on the results of periodical tests, the average student works only to pass his exams. To supplement their incomes, badly trained professors assist crammers by writing and selling notebooks and "Made Easies." At that, so many students fail exams-partly because they arrive ill-prepared in the English that remains the medium of instruction-that colleges sometimes add a "grace mark" to the exam results to raise the percentage of passed candidates...
...boss's mild criticism of the modern art in the big U.S. fair in Moscow (TIME, July 13), hastily dropped its ban on U.S. art prior to 1918, gathered up 25 to 30 famed American canvases painted before the 20th century, rushed them off to Russia to supplement the moderns in the big show. Among the late starters: Gilbert Stuart (one of his portraits of Washington), George P. A. Healy (his study of a beardless Lincoln), Copley, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, Remington, Mary Cassatt...
With the purchase of 15 to 20 more books to supplement its current six, the Coop plans to open next fall a shelf devoted exclusively to semantics, the study of the meaning of meaning...