Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Princeton, Dick had to pass the College Board exams. To stay there, he had to do odd jobs around the campus (waiting on table, driving laundry trucks) to supplement his scholarship. And since a year at Princeton costs a minimum of $1,700, he had to work every summer to get more money. Last summer, Dick combined business with business: he worked in the personnel department of Libby-Owens and, after hours, gathered data on labor-management relations for his 25,000-word senior thesis...
...turning his attention to the Old Testament, say his publishers, Oursler "attempts no rationalization or modernization of the original text . . . nor does he supplement the narrative with his own explanations or interpretations." But the technicolor in which his prophets, priests and kings appear is a bit of an interpretation in itself. Excerpts...
Other than Vaclav Trojan's excellent background music, the original production had no sound track, but Boris Karloff's dubbed-in narration helps to supplement and to speed up the action in the few spots that the film drags. Unfortunately, the lines sometimes draw attention away from the intricate, beautiful movements of the puppet actors...
When the promoters deal in a stock for which there is a market, they often jack up the price 100% or more when selling to U.S. customers. Example: promoters got thousands of copies of a Toronto Financial Post oil supplement, substituted a phony page to plug the "Moose Pasture Oil Company," and mailed the copies to a list of potential U.S. suckers. For the stock, which was selling at 20? a share in Toronto, they asked...
...just throw up his job and become a hermit, but he can "escape from [the] time cage" by cutting down on the nonessentials that prevent concentration. "No house in the future will be generously planned," says he, "that does not have its closet or its cell, to supplement the only equivalent for it today, the bathroom...