Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd on Mitchel Field, Long Island, watched a covey of 16 airplanes, some big, some small, all noisy, whirl once around the flying field and diminish until they were no more than a dash of black pepper on the horizon. The planes in that covey were the entrants in the first race of the Mitchel Field Airplane Tournament...
...eleventh hour, another candidate appeared in the person of Lord Cave, the Lord High Chancellor of the Realm. Still, this did not appear to diminish Lord Oxford's chances of election. By comparison he dwarfed Lord Cave intellectually and from the point of view of achievement. But Oxford is traditionally the home of lost causes and the treasury of Conservative thought. It was, therefore, not surprising that Lord Cave, a Conservative, was preferred as Chancellor to Lord Oxford, a Liberal, by 987 votes...
Regarding employment, he pointed out that Hungary, one-third its pre-War size, had the same number of Government employes as before the War. ''However," he continued, "steps have been taken gradually to diminish the number of Government employes without wholesale discharges, because that would have caused great confus:on and destitution...
...which are inevitably his first portion. If by means of personal conferences, group discussions, and talks by recognized authorities continued through out the year, the Social Service Committee can guarantee faithful, honest work to the institutions with which it cooperates, the prevalent unfortunate impression of collegiate triflers will appreciably diminish, and the twin ideals of service and civic responsibility will have an opportunity at least of rising to the place which they deserve to hold in undergraduate thought...
...secondly, that if and when payments derived by Great Britain from European War debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for the full discharge of British obligations toward the United States oyer the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's Allies...