Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husbandman's complaint, expressed through his representatives to the Senate committee, was specific: By raising tariff rates on manufacturers and raw materials as well as on agricultural products, the House bill had failed to diminish the gap of economic inequality between Industry and Husbandry. Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, stated it thus: Industry enjoys a 40% tariff protection; the House bill raised Husbandry's protection to 31%, another 9% must be forthcoming from the Senate...
...money market. If, said he, the corporations that are lending money on securities would instead buy those securities (that is, if a corporation bought 1,000 shares of stock instead of putting into the call money market $100,000 secured by those 1,000 shares) brokers' loans would diminish, the market would still be supported, and all would be well. But this solution remains impossible as long as the Reserve Board keeps threatening a collapse in security values. On this commodity inflation point, the dissenting banker would probably wonder how it was that money which would dangerously inflate commodities...
...admit it is true that all the social wealth of our great city does not reside in our district, and that handsomer houses do decorate other parts of our municipality and of our suburbs. That, however, does not diminish one iota the character of our inhabitants or their determination each to fulfill his part in improving the lives of his people and the homes in which they live...
When Abnormal Psychology arrived at Harvard, the idea was entertained that its function was to minister to the undergraduate body; to dissolve its woes and anxieties and appease its truancies, and thus to diminish the incidence of depression and suicide and further sound scholarship. When it was understood that Dr. Shaw of the Department of Hygiene was competently fulfilling this office, black hints were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology...
...United Press despatch from Paris read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...