Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fewer Quacks. The recent scandal in medical licensure will, no doubt, diminish still further the number of physicians coming from low grade medical schools. Out of 35,497 physicians during the last six years, only 1,903 came from medical schools rated as low grade by the American Medical Association...
...That the law creating the Rail-road Labor Board be modified, as the functioning of that body tends to increase and complicate rather than diminish railway labor difficulties...
...Story. There are books that find their audience instantaneously- and oblivion soon. There are books whose first popularity the years do little to diminish. And there are books whose progress toward a place in the ranks of acknowledged greatness is as gradual and irresistible as the advance of a glacier. Travels in Arabia Deserta* (first published in 1888) belongs in this last rare class. One recognizes that, if any tale of a journey in modern times may stand beside the tale of the wanderings of Ulysses, it is this...
Subway trains will carry passengers through Harvard Square to the Stadium station before the game, to help diminish further the crowding on the street...
...diminishing the number of undergraduates would not greatly diminish the number enrolling in biology I, wherein lies the suggested cure? The Coroporation has declared that at present another course is out of the question. This must be due to lack of means in money and room space. The elimination of undergraduate "trade" courses should relieve to a considerable extent both the present congestion of class-room conditions and the drain upon University funds. In such a case the Corporation might find its present difficulties melting pleasantly away...