Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a new stock exposed to unusually severe climatic conditions and, in addition, living at a relatively high altitude. . . Here we have the genital malformations in the region of the cyclonic infall and along the storm tracks. Is it not likely that these malformations, which would tend to diminish in frequency in an older, permanently domiciled population. . . appear here because a new population not previously subject to such climatic trauma would yield a relatively larger number of malformations of this type...
...probabilities, however, are that the higher priced cigarette manufacturers would be compelled to put out a 10-cent cigarette to meet the competition, the public would get a poorer quality of cigarette all around, and the revenues which the government thought it had from the 15-cent product would diminish materially, and the farmer would get less for his product...
...Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike...
...young Corrado de Catolica. When he becomes a shadow again at the end of three days, Prince Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella from which this picture was adapted does not diminish the charm of Death Takes a Holiday. It remains a serious poetic riddle, imperfect, thoughtful, delicately morbid...
...apparent irrecencilability of these groups is unfortunate, since a split, in the Club would greatly diminish its potential usefulness. A properly organized liberal club, by providing preminent speakers and, incidentally, the machinery for a really effective political lobby could be as useful to the College as a whole as to its members. These ends can only be achieved by a united club possessing the confidence of the college. A serious rupture now, however, would mean the end of a program dedicated to these ends and probably cause the Liberal Club to fall back into its customary position...