Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American revolutions came from the revolutionists of Sao Paulo last week, leaders in Brazil's civil war against the Rio de Janeiro Government of Provisional President Getulio Vargas. So many enthusiasts had volunteered for the rebel army that the lists were full and the books closed with a complement of 60,000 men-all that Sao Paulo arsenals, armories and munitions plants can take care of. Tardy volunteers must take their places on the waiting list, to be called as casualties warrant...
...closer acquaintance with the subject, lessened the complement of imagination necessary to register the whole image on canvas. He is impersonal. He catches with the eye, of the camera, and he fortifies the object with symbolism; but his symbolism is the soul emanation of the object, not the essence which the mind imposes upon it. When Rivers, the famous Mexican mural painter, draws a tractor, he does not delve into his folio for a model or into the store of his technical information for the knowledge, but relies upon his mental image, with the result that his machines though often...
...snowy roads in a one-horse shay, but he knew something that the modern vintage of physicians too often forgets. Like the great Sir William Osler, he knew that a doctor's ministration is not confined to medicine. Although the specialist in the city may succeed without this full complement of humanity, the man who goes out into the country places needs to be, now as always, a philosopher and friend to his patients...
Devoting nearly the entire period to polishing up a strong defense for the football air raid that Casey and his staff are confident will be used by the Texas eleven in tomorrow's game, Harvard's preparation virtually ended yesterday. The drill served as a complement to Wednesday afternoon's session on defensive work on running plays...
...Quebec Province and of Montreal speak a provincial French patois, su perficially proud that their French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate French-Canadian feeling for things French so that they wall prefer French exports and travel to France by Compagnie Générale...