Word: supplementation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government laid down its postwar plan for the last third of its defenses-the Army. In the House of Commons Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that what was planned to supplement a Navy of 10,000 men, an Air Force of 15-20,000, was a well-equipped Army of at least 20-25,000 men (prewar strength of Army: 4,000). To this regular establishment the Dominion would add six territorial di visions in part-time service...
After five years in "murderer's canary cage" it is a great relief suddenly to see through open doors into a free world, and when one is trying to become re-orientated to the facts and problems of the western world, TIME is an excellent supplement to our daily newspapers (still rubbing their eyes...
...scraped Danubian plain blazed like brass: Hungary, one of the bounteous nations of Europe, would this year require six million quintals of wheat. Allied authorities started a vast woodcutting campaign in the Vienna woods, to supplement the capital's inadequate coal stocks...
Congratulations on your matter-of-fact treatment of the scientific side of the atomic bomb [TIME, Aug. 20]. After having struggled with the Sunday supplement-like nonsense which the newspapers have been printing recently on the subject, it was welcome relief...
Author Mencken first intended The American Language: Supplement I to be a small addition to his American Language, soon discovered that his mass of new material had outgrown the parent volume. Many of Supplement I's 739 pages are devoted simply to supporting the thesis of The American Language, i.e., U.S. speech-ways have grown so powerful that they are rapidly reducing to a dialect "the ancient and lovely but now somewhat rheumy language of the British Isles." Readers of the Supplement will find it packed with boisterous Menckenian humor and casual erudition...