Word: supplemental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months prematurely, continued to thrive in their eighth week (TIME, June 11). Still kept in incubators they wriggled, stretched, arched their backs, waved their limbs and squeaked for food. Montreal mothers sent them 20 oz. of breast milk daily, which Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe last week began to supplement with tomato juice. Mrs. Dionne, who had injured herself by getting out of childbed too soon, was up and about last week...
Greatest of all dictionaries is the New English (Oxford). It took 71 years to write and publish, comprises twelve fat volumes plus a modern supplement, contains a history of each of 400,000 English words and is chiefly for scholars (cost: $125).* Nearest U. S. approach to such a dictionary was the Century (now out of print), which appeared in 1889-91 with six volumes of word histories. It has since been superseded by a two-volume edition (cost: $12). For title of best one-volume laymen's dictionary the U. S. has two first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls...
Edward Lee Thorndike: Educational psychologist, the foremost American pioneer in developing those new types of measurement which supplement our older forms of examination...
...winners of the appointments to the Institution will be brought to Washington for the months of February and March, 1935, for a practical experience designed to supplement classroom study of political science in the preparation for leadership in public affairs. Each student will serve as an apprentice to a government official, receiving instruction at the same time. The Institution is a nonpartisan, privately financed organization. The American political arena is desperately in need of young men specially trained for governmental positions and free from entangling alliances with party bosses and machines...
...before tradition. Author Mann never meddles with the main outline of the Biblical story, but he expands its abbreviated prehistory into an appearance of the present, concentrates its bald chronicle of events into a human reality. No strict-interpretationist of the Scriptures, he does not hesitate to contradict or supplement the original account in matters of minor fact. Thus he says that Jacob's only daughter Dinah was older, not younger, than her brothers Issachar and Zebulun; suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served...