Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This radiation problem has a regrettable complement at Harvard, for the General Education hope that a citizen might have some comprehension of the problems of science and scientists is balked here. The sciences thwart General Education, which is pointless if it cannot teach the three areas of knowledge on a roughly equal level. Scientists in the University rarely agree to give Gen Ed courses, and the notable exceptions, men like Kemble, Cohen, Nash, Holton, and LeCorbeillier are left to keep on teaching the courses year in and year...
Hamm, a sophomore, also has the necessary potential for a top collegiate player. He is fast, hits with tremendous power, and is the possessor of a very deft touch game to complement his hard drives...
...Guggenheim Fellowship enable him to work on Clamor, a book intended to complement his former writings. He was given the Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts and letters...
...promising, prospective Harvardmen. Lloyd Jordan felt bluntly that money many of these should promise to play ball if they wanted to be prospective Harvardmen. He was wrong. If Harvard is an educational institution, it must make education its only aim; football, as University Hall has stated it, is a complement to education because, as everyone knows, "A healthy body means a healthy mind." But to say, "Charlie, my boy, you'll have time for ball and studies, too," is to say that football to some people can be just as important as all the rest of the intellectual life...
...world entered 1956 with a full complement of great men: national leaders, statesmen, philosophers, artists and scientists, many of whom, pursuing their legitimate vocations, would be remembered among the great names of the epoch. But the man who put his stamp on this particular year?the Man of the Year?was not on the roster of the world's great when the year began. Nor could anyone have guessed his identity, even when the year had run four-fifths of its course. Yet by year's end, this man was seen to have shaken history's greatest despotism...