Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Calvert Round Table and a list of guests to whom invitations have already been sent. The first one will discuss vocational adjustment in its relation to religion and race bases. The second will treat of misrepresentation of religious beliefs and practices, and how best to lessen them or effect their elimination. The third table will consider questions of community cooperation and conflict; and to what extent cooperation, ignoring religious divisions fons has proved successful in different communities
...staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine defendants. Liberals and conservatives again pointed a proud finger to Judge Barnhill, unruffled, scrupulously ruling. But the approving fingers soon wavered. When Judge Barnhill, following a North Carolina statute of 1777, ordered a witness's disbelief...
...Already jubilant over these signs of prosperity, railroad men heard with interest last week that a non-railroad man was working on an experiment which might materially lessen operating costs. The experiment was a Timken Tapered Roller Bearing-equipped locomotive. The experimenter was Henry Holiday Timken...
...Supreme Court divided 6-to-3 against Mme. Schwimmer's application. Said Mr. Justice Butler in the majority opinion: ''It is the duty of citizens by force of arms to defend our Government. . . . Whatever tends to lessen the willingness of citizens to discharge their duty to bear arms . . . detracts from the strength and safety of the government. The influence of conscientious objectors ... is apt to be more detrimental than their mere refusal to bear arms. The fact that, by reason of sex, age or other cause they may be unfit to serve, does not lessen their purpose...
...Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory and the T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Memorial Laboratory were built. They afforded excellent facilities for certain advance courses in chemistry and for the prosecution of research, and still do so. They did not, however, appreciably lessen the great overcrowding in Boylston Hall. Indeed, the conditions in this building, never designed primarily for a chemical laboratory, with little or no ventilation and with antique equipment, became well-nigh intolerable...