Word: supplementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibly be read, and although the establishment is a larder of the best in modern poetry, criticisms, and first editions, Cairnie reluctantly admitted he doesn't get much chance to read. "Spend most of my time reading about books," he said, indicating scattered copies of the London Times Literary Supplement, the Saturday Review of Literature and book sections of the New York Times and Herald Tribune. "Things are coming out so fast these days," he went on, "it takes me a week to read the reviewers, and just as I finish, I've got to start all over again...
...meet last Wednesday's term bill the Student Council has broken tradition and is offering scholarships up to $50 to students who can show need. Ordinarily the Council scholarships are only offered immediately before the term bills are due, but the Council is taking this special action to supplement its recent appeals to the Bursar for time extensions on the bills...
David McCord '21 resigned today as editor of the Alumni Bulletin to devote more of his time to the drive for funds to supplement the Lamont gift of $1,500,000 for a new undergraduate library. His successor of the Bulletin will be William Bentinck-Smith...
...growth of tubercle bacilli in guinea pigs, gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...confronted with an accomplished fact, the Soviets are giving evidences of sore temptation to join with us and the British on terms we can agree to. This is natural, for we have both a carrot and a stick to move them. The carrot is reparations, desperately needed to supplement the war-damaged Soviet economy. The stick is the Ruhr, the greatest industrial area in Europe, which the Kremlin policy-makers deeply fear to see under the complete control of the Western powers. To secure any change of Soviet policy in Germany by these means is our maximum objective...