Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This understanding, engendered in the open minds of audiences in every country, will lessen hatred between countries, thus bringing nearer the arrival of world peace said Mr Hays. The militons who daily throng to see American films, 90 percent of which are made by the companies under my supervision, are influenced to an extent never possible by books or the press...
...forward) : Efficiency, the fiend created by Inventor to resemble Mary (symbol of heart-love) thus to win the soul of man for capitalist Masterman, leads Humanity toward destruction. Humanity discovers its error, burns Efficiency at the stake, thus releases itself from industrial slavery. Understanding, sympathy, apparently, are needed to lessen the labors of man, not mechanical exactitude. Once the human impulses are unchecked by Efficiency, the milk of human kindness overflows everywhere, class distinctions are washed away in the flood, the toiler's working day is shortened. A Harold Bell Wright mentality wrestling with a Rousseauistic sentiment might have...
Teeth. "Decay of the teeth is prevalent in 80% to 85% of the people. . . . After rigid investigation we have definitely concluded that the decay of the teeth is specific infection, just as specific as tuberculosis or typhoid fever. Cleaning the teeth will not prevent decay, but will lessen the possibility of it. Decay is accentuated chiefly by the excessive eating of sugar," said Professor Russell W. Bunting of Michigan University before the same meeting...
...Strong Man (Harry Langdon). With a facial muscle he can raise gales of laughter. The fact that pathos has been introduced into Harry Langdon's funny scenes does not lessen his effectiveness as a comedian. In this picture, he is captured during the World War by Herr Zandow, Germany's strong man. Later, in the U. S., he is forced to impersonate his powerful employer. Incidental complications lead him to clean up a wicked town, discover his sweetheart, emerge as the local police force. His gestures, glances, movements, daintily restrained, cause explosions of laughter...
...Lawrence Scientific School, was always known for his interest in the personal and human problems of his students. This was undoubtedly one of the chief elements in his popularity among all those who knew him. It was felt by the sponsors of the new project, which is to lessen the difficulties of married graduates, that the plan should honor the name of a man whose interests were in similar problems of his students...