Word: complementation
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...they sank it. Rescue ships, including a U. S. freighter and a Dutch vessel, picked up perhaps half of the Courageous' company who were found singing and cheering in the water. The Admiralty took wry satisfaction from the fact that the carrier had aboard less than her full complement of 48 planes...
...that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what he saw was 133 ghosts-some of them round-bellied, rust-patched, long since war-weary. What counted was their complement of 12,000 newly assembled reservists, swelling Britain's total mobilized sea force...
...subject. One-third of the population is Catholic (although there is no Catholic in the Government) and looks upon union with Eire as a deliverance from the fanatically Protestant rule of Lord Craigavon's Northern Ireland Government. Industrial (and very much depressed) Belfast would, moreover, be a natural complement to agricultural Eire...
...More likely than not, there will be coaching difficulties, for coaches must live by their intercollegiate reputations, and perhaps only a few will be willing to inter themselves at Harvard. Moreover, the system depends to a considerable extent upon a Yale that is agreeable to cooperation and ready to complement it with a similar set-up. Yet such objections do not invalidate the idea; and if this is accepted in its essence it can develop only with time. Provided the journey is made relentlessly but gradually and cautiously, the difficulties will resolve themselves with the benefit of this time...
...come out at the end of the 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...