Word: dampens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers pronounced the workout as the best of the year for the Harlowmen, and some of the gloom hanging over the Crimson gridiron camp lifted. Darkness and a heavy mist didn't dampen spirits as the Varsity ran through their plays with reckless abandon...
Moreover, a hunter for peace might easily have found a few faint signs of improvement on the international horizon last week. The week-end trouble in Czechoslovakia (see p. 22) was not likely to dampen determined British optimism and Britain was more than likely not to do any more than protest against another partition of the country. The British low-down on Germany last week was that the Nazis were having such a tough time with economic problems that they could scarcely plan an "adventure" soon. Similarly...
...vast volume of public adulation descended upon Lieutenant Hobson, but overwhelming as it was it failed to turn his head, nor thereafter and in more mature years did it ever dampen the ardor of his fervent patriotism...
While the ceremonious procession of the Torch Relay made big news in Europe, it was overshadowed in the U. S. Press last week by other doings in Berlin. Unwilling to permit the approach of the Olympic Games themselves to dampen their enthusiasm, U. S. athletes and their keepers continued to behave as unpredictably as ever...
Finally the shocking, aristocratic candor of Their Lordships became so excessive that popular Lord Cecil, a great maker of addresses at middle-class League of Nations meetings, intervened to dampen the shocks. "As long as we remain members of the League and signatories of its Covenant," Lord Cecil reminded Their Lordships, "we are bound to carry out our obligations under that Covenant. I regard the motion with misgiving because it would mean that we no longer would be bound by provisions of a treaty we had deliberately signed. That is a doctrine which is not only extremely dangerous...