Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving picture business-whether because producers feel that the season will excuse shortcomings or diminish protests -has long manufactured a staple product known as "summer fare." The Bride Walks Out is a fair sample of it, one of the minor discomforts of hot weather, to be classed with mosquitoes and warm mayonnaise. Typical gag (by Sparks): "Maybe if I get fired, Millie will divorce me. There I go, daydreaming again...
...manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over the ground by rail. The difference in means of transmission cannot affect or diminish the power of Congress to regulate respondent's activities as it can regulate the activities of railroads...
...White Paper Germany was not to erect fortifications in the Rhineland. Last week news that Adolf Hitler had ordered the most intensive German efforts to build fortifications in the Rhineland as fast as possible made the interest of His Majesty's Government in the British White Paper diminish even further. To find out exactly where the British stood a French delegate to the League Council in London, famed trial Lawyer Joseph Paul-Boncour, visited Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, then flew to Paris. Said he: "The only answer I received was a movement of the head-neither positive nor negative...
...holes and grooves in the mirror's back not only diminish the total weight but provide a hold for the steel grips which will keep the mirror in place in the telescope...
...England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...