Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once hostile Gentile* world no longer howls for Mormon blood. This week a Mormon party of 143 men, three women and two children-the exact complement of Brigham Young's advance guard in the great trek of 1847-started west from Nauvoo, Ill. to commemorate that event. They anticipated nothing more dangerous than flat tires and Chamber of Commerce luncheons. Their shiny new Buick and Studebaker automobiles were disguised by plywood oxen and white canvas tops. To please the church's publicity department, they camped out every night...
Swallowing a regret that it should take place on a military level only, one can still examine with interest this approach to accord. The force suggested by the United States to the four other subscribing powers would consist of twenty divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...
...that she was typed as "that fast-singing Lucky Strike girl." One day, after a tough stretch, she decided to remodel herself, shuck the Hit Parade mannerisms, get a new name and a new agent. It turned out that her lusty, slower-paced new-style singing was a good complement to radio's comedians. Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye. She practiced her comedy lines and learned to "get into the show." She also picked up some brassy publicity tricks: one night Garry...
Rice is currently serving as Massachusetts Regional Vice-Chairman of NSO, and is also the newly-elected executive secretary of the local chapter of the American Veterans Committee. The graduate representatives will complement the College delegation of Charles R. Conklin '48, Francis D. Fisher '47, and Selig S. Harrison...
...have neither votes nor interest in reform, and with the working class content in its slums. Boston lacks the seed of initiative to overcome its inertia. In other cities a Joseph Pulitzer or a Mark Eldridge has crusaded through the newspapers and found something dynamic in the community to complement its editorials. In Boston, how ever, the press takes its lead from the community, and Boston must rest in its circle torpor...