Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the operation of both plans a nation would find its credit with the American Fund or British Clearing Union increasing or diminishing according to the trend in balance of payments. If, for instance, Britain were importing more than it was exporting, its holdings of Unitas (or bancor) would tend to diminish (other factors being equal). If the U.S. were exporting more than it was importing, its credit in Unitas (or bancor) would tend to increase...
...believe that this may well be disastrous. A liberal education has always been supposed to encourage the thought and reflection which enables men to criticize and direct society; it is a bulwark of democracy. To eliminate liberal education would greatly diminish the number of men so trained and thus would menace the democratic environment in which leaders of democracies should be trained in War as well as in Peace. Since there is likely to be a year between graduation from high school and induction into military service, we recommend that this year be used by those who so desire...
...about two years ago the dominant interests in Mutual, R. H. Macy & Co. and the Chicago Tribune sought to purchase parts of the Blue network from us, which would have destroyed the Blue as a coast-to-coast network. By such elimination of the Blue these interests sought to diminish rather than to increase network competition. There would have been three nationwide networks instead of four as at present. We refused to dismember the Blue network...
...French Guiana. Widespread French public opinion was probably reflected in a Journal des Débats editorial: "The conditions in which Japan struck the first blow prove that the decision to wage war was taken several days ago. As time passes the benefit of surprise action will doubtless diminish. Should the war prove long, America's potential will make itself felt...
...weary Chancellor turned increasingly to decree-laws. To diminish unemployment, he asked the aged Hindenburg for a decree chopping up the Junker lauded estates and resettling jobless workers on them. The President, dominated by monocled aristocrats like Kurt von Schleicher, demanded the resignation of the "agrarian Bolshevik...