Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will show that effective provision has not been made. The plan is to play the same teams every two or three years but no team, with the exception of Yale, two years in succession. This step is intended to remove the spirit of competition from the game and hence diminish the emphasis on victory. Such step, how ever, would only increase the number of rivals and make the competition keener and more prolonged. The desire to retrieve lost laurels would be the stronger for waiting two or three years instead...
English A, the prescribed course for Freshmen, has long been one of the largest and most famous courses in the College curriculum. Next year, under the new regulations, its membership is expected to diminish by over one third, which will in many ways change the nature of the course...
...drawn victorias, all of which somewhat offset a nude story by Paul Morand, a discussion of Broadway females, some "daring" art work and a letter-the original of which is possessed by the U. S. State Department-to a Man with "a violent natural inclination" which no medicine will diminish, and with an aversion to Matrimony, a Man who persists in thinking Commerce with the Sex inevitable-advising him to prefer old Women to young ones in his Amours for seven cogent, ingenious reasons and one technical reason. This letter is signed by Benjamin Franklin...
...lack of objectivity on the part of most of the propagandists for the World Court. They are under the spell of a great idea; to them the World Court issue has become the symbol and test of America's willingness to cooperate with other nations in the effort to diminish the chances of war. Being in this subjective frame of mind they are impatient with those who insist upon examining the World Court proposal without parti pris...
...Discus 18, or Checkers among the Early Christians, which would, by partaking at once of the nature of sport and learning, endanger neither. These courses it goes without saying, could only be given in the years following football victories. Defeat, particularly over a period of years, would diminish prod's or even wipe them out, and if the alumni stockholders in Pigskin Preferred passed a dividend or two. Discus it could no longer be thrown...