Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think' is a weak substitute for 'I think-not.' 'I choose not to be a candidate in nineteen twenty-eight' is a sentence of good English. But it would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke or his peer at grammar could write the New York Times another letter pointing out that the Coolidge renomination question is now definitely settled...
Dikran Kuyumjian ("Michael Arlen"), novelist, was reported ill, despondent, trying to gather strength in Switzerland for an operation, his second within two years, which was "expected to diminish his nervous vitality...
...feared in some quarters that an acknowledgment of error would diminish respect for the courts. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing can undermine public esteem for law more certainly than a prevalent suspicion that its guardians care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary...
...throw open to a much larger number of undergraduates opportunities for participation in football. The first also frees Seniors from the demands of intercollegiate competition and enables them to devote themselves exclusively to the primary purpose of the college. Most important of all the home and home arrangement will diminish, may even destroy, the whole public emphasis now devoted to the University eleven. With two teams of equal strength instead of one there will no longer be any "varsity" for the papers to write about and the public to talk about incessantly for two months every autumn. It will...
...sportsmanship in American athletics, and an example such as it is, has been set for other colleges to follow. It is an ideal worth striving for, but the President's program is as impractical as was the Harvard Crimson's proposal in 1925 when the editors sought to diminish the number of games and remove all big rivals other than Yale from the Harvard schedule. --Yale Daily News