Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with his own hands bridges, plates, or other carriers of artificial teeth. The dentist of the future will make all the designs or patterns needed, just as the orthopaedic surgeon does; but he will employ skilled mechanics working in a dental laboratory to execute those designs. This change will diminish the amount of mechanical labor to be done by the professional man. Numerous analogous changes have already been made in other professions...
...moment grant, it seems to me radically unfair that the minor sports should be the only ones to suffer. It has always been urged against intercollegiate athletics that only a small number of men were able to participate. The proposed arrangement would increase, rather than diminish, this difficulty. We then come back to the original question: Is this the most satisfactory solution? Emphatically...
...Colleges in New England at Cambridge, December 6, 1907, voted, to send to the various colleges represented in the association the following expression of opinion: That an exaggerated amount of attention is now being given to intercollegiate athletic contests in most of the New England colleges, and that to diminish this exaggeration the most effective measure would be a large reduction in the number of intercollegiate contests...
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the Auditorium of the Brown Union reports of committees will be read by Horace E. Deming '71 and others. At 3 o'clock there will be round-table conferences on the subjects "Is it Desirable or Practicable to Diminish or Exclude the Influence of the National Parties and Issues in Municipal Contests," and "Electoral Reform...
...game of football. One of the greatest criticisms that is heard at the present time against the game is that it is too rough and of no use to us after we leave college. Both of these facts are, of course, falsehoods, but that does not in any way diminish the harm they do in the popular mind...