Word: supplemented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan, as outlined to the Tokyo Diet's Budget Committee by Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, will provide $329,177,940 over a period of six years to supplement building now going on. The Admiral said that latest plans of the U. S. and Britain had been taken into account in mapping the program, and provision made for increases in case those countries should further jack up their building rate...
...only trouble with Sunday supplement folk tales about deadly trees and monstrous flowers which trap, devour and digest human beings is that they are as untrue as they sound. But it is true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...
...Daniel Defoe were alive today he would probably be writing for the Hearst papers. His Robinson Crusoe was the greatest and most enjoyable journalistic hoax in history. His accounts of London fires, plagues, streetwalkers, ghosts and insect pests would be welcome copy for any Sunday supplement. When Reporter Defoe went to Scotland in 1706 to spy out political sentiment for his secret master, Secretary of State Robert Harley, he improved his time by picking up believe-it-or-not tales of a bridge over a dry river (between Glasgow and Sterling), of fishermen who killed porpoises with a sock...
...year with little understanding of economic thought and a definite revulsion to economic theory. If a large number of people are prejudiced against Economics as opposed to History, one must conclude that the University has failed to show that they complement rather than supplement one another...
...observer of the changing business scene, I shall welcome into my home another index to supplement and affirm-or disaffirm-other series...