Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Committee, with Dr. Vannevar Bush, President of Carnegic Institution in Washington as Chairman, was appointed by President Roosevelt and has the cooperation of The Bureau of Standards, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council for its work, which will in no way replace but merely supplement the experiments now being carried on by the Army and Navy. It is intended merely to accelerate and increase present governmental research...
...inspected ship and police radios, supervised the activities of the nation's hams. But since last June, when the President authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work. Now under construction are four new primary monitoring stations in Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. Ready to swing into action is a network of 72 secondary stations. Required personnel for the monitoring job: 520 men for the duration. Last week the new Defense Communications...
...pecked his findings into his dilapidated typewriter: "The sharp difference between Willkie and the New Deal centres on the place of capitalism in our national life. Roughly, Willkie believes private capitalism can carry the ball alone. New Dealers believe private capitalism alone is inadequate and that public spending must supplement it. The more extreme New Dealers go even further and question whether private capitalism is not a waning influence destined not to disappear perhaps but to play a far less controlling part in our national life...
...fine arts is necessary if the degree of understanding of the humanities, at which the course aims, is to be reached. But it would subordinate both fine arts and history to the reading of the original written works, and use them only in so far as they supplement or illustrate these more approachable works of the humanities...
Neither the fine arts nor history, in our view, should be brought into the course as essential components of the humanities. Only where they supplement or illustrate the books are they introduced. We would treat both in the lectures that occupy a third of the course's classrooms time, dividing it roughly between them...