Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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They play the mysteries of darkest Africa to the hilt. The camera pans over hundreds of blank and weirdly painted native faces; the soundtrack features native drums, beating endlessly; and there are cannibals, shricking animals, and a full complement of snakes, spiders, and other slimy things with legs which crawl. Since the majority of the actors are real natives, their own inscrutability adds to the general air of mystery...
...students signed in this year constitutes the smallest student body the College has had since the war, the figure issued yesterday by the Registrar's Office is still 298 above the number 4,300, which Provost Buck last year said was to be the "normal" College post-war student complement...
...synthesize their tritium, presumably in a chain-reacting pile. The only use for it in sight at present is to trace the vertical motions of ocean currents. Since short-lived tritium originates in the atmosphere, only water that has been on the surface recently should have a full complement of it. Water that has spent many years in the ocean depths should be tritium-free...
WHEN the 6,000-ton Juneau came to Far Eastern waters earlier this year, her mission was one of peacetime training. Few of her complement had seen action and officers admitted that her men were "below standards desirable for combat." They were still below standard when the Juneau headed north about a fortnight ago under wartime orders. Then one day the lookout spotted four torpedo boats bearing down on the ship...
...Seventy-five B-29s, the complement of the Fifteenth Air Force's 22nd and 92nd Bomber Wings, left California and Washington last week to join the Far East Bomber Command. The first contingent of 30 planes passed through Honolulu on July...