Word: dampener
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...cold, however, didn't dampen the traditional tone of the Yale weekend. Rather it provided an added stimulus to post-game entertainment, and along with the greased pigs and the CRIMSON'S speedy extra, was a part of every cocktail conversation. The extra was in fact the second publication of the day by Crimeds, the first being issue number three of the New Haven edition inaugurated last spring...
...Flute and Guitar by Kaspar Furstenau, a contemporary of Beethoven. Its rather uninteresting music was partially redeemed by the sparkling flute playing of Karl Kraber, and the rare use of a guitar as the accompanying instrument. Richard Zaffron handled this part adequately, but with a curious disinclination to dampen a string once sounded...
Meantime his bucket of ice water should serve to dampen the optimism of even the most optimistic-in San Francisco and elsewhere. For that unintended good deed, the West can be duly grateful...
...DRAMATIC restatement of America's position in relation to world affairs is due soon. It is high time something be done to dampen the widespread notion-which seems to be shared even among some of our friends and allies-that America is hell-bent for war. America should take the peace initiative away from Moscow. We should prove to civilized opinion that we, more than anybody else in the world, want and need peace because we, above all others, have more to lose by war. This is a job which the President can do far better than anyone else...
...also tightening up on loans. In January FHA insured $931 million worth of new home construction, nearly double the amount of a year ago. But in the past few weeks, FHA has started to dampen the boom. In Dallas last week, FHA announced that it would make no further firm commitments on purely speculative housing, i.e., with no buyer signed up. In 17 other areas, e.g., Fort Dix, N.J., Portsmouth, Ohio, Paducah, Ky., primarily where defense-stimulated expansion has mushroomed building too rapidly, FHA has also rationed the number of loans it will insure, sometimes cutting builders' applications...