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Word: lessening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Monday the Campaign of the United War Workers will begin. At this time when Germany is laying down her arms in acknowledgement of defeat, we must not lessen our efforts to make the drive a success. During the many months before the boys can be brought back home their welfare must be cared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! | 11/8/1918 | See Source »

...when you lend your money to the Government instead of spending it, you will at once lessen the drain to a certain extent on our country's resources, its material, its labor, and its transportation facilities, and in addition you supply your Government with money to be used in winning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lend--Not Spend--Your Money. | 4/13/1918 | See Source »

...Book borrowed $700 of the Class Fund and of this amount $460 has already been repaid, leaving the Sophomores a balance to draw from in case it is decided to invest more of the funds in the third Liberty Loan, although the cost of the recent smoker will necessarily lessen the balance to a certain extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1920 TREASURY WELL FILLED | 4/2/1918 | See Source »

...college curriculum, not a substitution. Mental training and the need of it remain the same however much the world changes. That which has developed great minds in the past will develop them in the future. The worth of classics in this respect has been proved; nothing can lessen it. By the new policy they will not be supplemented, but rather added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMALL LATIN AND LESS GREEK | 1/28/1918 | See Source »

Today the Red Cross asks us to join an organization whose object is to lessen the sufferings of our nation's defenders—of the world's defenders. One dollar is the amount called for. There are few who cannot give this sum. The splendid gift of the American people to the Red Cross last spring proved that we were thinking of something beside sending our soldiers into battle. We wanted them cared for in their dangers. This spirit of loving kindness is with us more than ever at this time of year. As Christmas draws near, our first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RED CROSS DRIVE | 12/17/1917 | See Source »

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