Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...explained last night that he believed that these two objections could be obviated. Plans are now under way to make it possible for the Harvard Aeronautical Society to have the use of a plane without great cost; and the adoption of stringent flying rules would do much to lessen the danger...
...score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then...
...fact is as that the CRIMSON states: League or no League, we must have a force adequate for self-protection. The League, we all hope, will do much to lessen the number of future wars; but it seems most irrational, to say the least, to advocate placing practically our entire reliance upon it as a means of defense...
...failed to realize the temper of the people of Boston. Even if the city had been sufficiently protected by the volunteer police force, there is no excuse for them leaving their duty. The soldier who deserts may know some one else will take his place. But that doesn't lessen the disgrace of his desertion...
...University Faculty will probably make a date of entrance later than the regular registration day, January 2. Men who cannot return before January 2, will thus be able to pursue their curriculum without inconvenience or delay. Without relaxing the usual scholastic standards, every effort will be made to lessen the difficulty such men will encounter on returning to College after an interruption of in some cases, three of four years...