Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best compromise would be to increase the number of informal dances rather than diminish the number of formals. More informals, closed if necessary, would undoubtedly attract the gentlemen of moderate means. To further the promotion of social harmony, the record dance program should be enlarged and if possible, established on a College-wide basis for reduction in cost...
...stand on the topic: "Received. That labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry," the affirmative pointed to the success of labor-management committees during the war. The affirmative also claimed that giving labor a share in management would tend to unite capital and labor, diminish industrial strife, and put an end to the possibility of class warfare...
Some years ago, theorists of the Keynes-Hansen school were summarily tagged as "pump-primers." That emotionally charged label no longer does them justice. Professor Hansen argues tellingly for an integrated set of Federal policies which will diminish the roller-coaster swings of the economy from prosperity to ruin. The recommended measures include such familiar short-run ones as expanded public works in depression and cyclically adjusted tax burdens, together with attempts to get at the more fundamental factors through income redistribution, subsidized consumption, and active encouragement of private investment. The nation's best-known advocate of deliberate fiscal planning...
...impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order while still preserving full civil liberties even for law violators. Why don't you admit that the implications of the article were unfounded and unwarranted ? Why not say that your face is red? Surely TIME will not diminish in public esteem by such a brave admission of error...
...Said Willoughby: "This article was censorable under the American code affecting any derogatory statement which tends to diminish the reputation . . . of the occupation forces or its commanders...