Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...negro must learn to honor manual labor, for this is merely the foundation of higher civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...
...ratified. But the entire field would be explored; existing powers and limitations would be better understood; wholesome legislation, national and state, would be stimulated; abuses would be more clearly noted; remedies would be more zealously sought and easier found; groundless complaint would measurably subside; useless, impracticable agitation would diminish; reform movements would gain in practicability and promise; and the political atmosphere generally would be materially cleared...
...competition. Regulation has invariably proved an inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated in the public interest. It will mean a paying investment to the city because the street railways are tremendously profitable. It will diminish political corruption by removing the chief cause of corruption, and the city will be in a better position to solve its social problems...
...Unfortunately such is far from being the case. It is true that our annual receipts are very large and, unless football should decline in popularity; they are likely to remain so. On the other hand, as far as we can see ahead, our expenses are still less likely to diminish, indeed they tend to grow in a manner that is almost alarming. Not only have all our savings of past seasons been used up in the construction of the Stadium, but it will be some years before we are free from debt on this account, yet, even...
...price of H. A. A. tickets and of $1 to that of football and baseball season tickets would some what more than make up the amount hitherto raised by subscription, if the sales did not decrease. Moreover, it is extremely unlikely that the number sold would diminish, for there has been a steady increase in the last few years, and it is improbable that fewer men would buy tickets because of the increased price, when it was known that the slight addition meant not only greater privileges, but' also immunity from the excessive nuisance of subscription solicitations...