Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...
...idea has been advanced that this is legislation intended to prevent strikes and thereby prevent impeding commerce. Let me read a few lines from the Act itself: 'Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impede or diminish in .any way the right to strike.' So I think we may start with the idea that the Labor Board Act is not one to prohibit strikes...
...science. For instance, give the dailies to the metaphysicians; the weeklies to the psychologists, the radio and movies to experts in social science. And let it be stipulated that no edition and no story be released until the entire Board agree upon the truth. This would at once diminish the output of press, radio and cinema to precisely what that output was in the year...
...diorama differs from a cyclorama, panorama or simple miniature group in that it is both three-dimensional and, from the spectator's point of view, in true perspective. From front to back, a diorama's figures and objects diminish in size, merging imperceptibly with a curved, painted background. Diorama Corp. is proud of its historical and pictorial accuracy, has done much work for the Smithsonian Institution as well as for such firms as Ford and Sears Roebuck. Its President Edward Heckler Burdick conceived the idea of doing Christ in Gethsemane, to be followed by a half-dozen other...
...constants at all, but get bigger with the passage of time. The quantity of universal matter would increase proportionately to the square of the universal age. The electrogravity ratio would increase in proportion to the age itself, but increase of the ratio would diminish its gravitational denominator...