Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, but President Paasikivi knew the Kremlin would not stand for it, and the Finnish delegation stayed home. Despite this, U.S.-Finnish trade has continued to thrive. The Finns hoped that Russia was not preparing to demand heavy imports on top of reparations-a move which would surely diminish (or even abolish) their trade with...
...reported to Premier George Drew on a 15-month survey of Ontario's timber resources. He told of appalling waste from helter-skelter cutting, which left many a fallen tree to rot. Unless something drastic is done, said Expert Kennedy, Ontario's lumber industry "will continue to diminish in importance to such an extent that before 25 years it will be classed as a minor industry...
...critic took the air, MGM's edgy London staff winced. When Critic E. (for Eileen) Arnot Robertson reviewed MGM's The Green Years, it was the last straw. "When will Hollywood learn," she asked, "that to make everything larger, louder and lumpier than life is simply to diminish its effects...
With September's registration, the vast volume of business in the Veterans Office will begin to diminish. By fall, Monro, who officially succeeds Dean-elect Wilbur J. Bender on July 1, will be the sole remaining counsellor in the office, and his work will be limited to administration of Veteran's Administration business. The last returning veterans will enter College with this fall's registration of '51, and with them the task of screening applicants will revert to the Committee on Admissions...
Opposition speakers said that forced individual subscription to this policy would have expelled many members of the HLU besides those with Communist leanings and thus diminish its effectiveness...