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Word: augments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive will also augment the endowment used for undergraduate scholarships...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Radcliffe Will Start Major Fund Drive | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...battery. A small Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They can augment conversation. When a patron at the Phoenix Playboy Club asked a Bunny why the red light on her traffic-signal pendant, suspended above an intersection, was blinking, she sweetly responded: "Red means stop. Proceed with caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Odds & Trends | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...story behind Go is at best difficult to follow. But to augment the confusion, the story actually starts at the beginning of side two and ends with the final track of side one--an unconventional approach to be sure, yet perhaps an intentional choice, emphasizing in still another fashion the ideas of contradiction and polarity so integral to the album's thematic focus...

Author: By Margaret ANN Hamburg, | Title: Keep Going | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...taking the TV series. To improve the course, the college helped to create a student guide and used a book on the Adams family and era (total cost: $10.80). Says Orange Coast History Professor Norman Lumian: "I am very much in favor of face-to-face teaching. Television might augment and supplement a course, and for older people it's a real blessing, but for young minds that can interact, I think it's a complete prostitution of the entire educational system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Adams Finals | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein team," as they came to be known in Washington, as anything other than what they were?hungry reporters desperately eager for a break. But the film will augment what they have since become: very rich reporters in the anomalous and, for most newsmen, disquieting position of being more famous than many of their sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Watergate on Film | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

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