Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...table in position as well as in name, for it will be located on a platform raised above the rest of the dining room. Thus a barrier is created which, though small, will make less attractive the opportunity for students to dine at the tutors' table, and will probably diminish the number of those...
...higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...
...Messieurs, between a pear and some cheese, we have just laid the little cornerstone of a European federation; discreetly, between a pear and some cheese?which doesn't, you know, diminish at all the importance of the event...
...famed young man, Private Christian Keener Cagle of Company B, does not find that being "the greatest football halfback since Red Grange" helps him with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and schoolgirl illusions to the contrary notwithstanding. Christian Keener Cagle is not a domineering, fire-eating, muscle-bulging hero off the gridiron. He is quiet, retiring. He brought a drawl but not much rambunctiousness with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall...
...well-balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than decrease, that Cracker fiendishness and cruelty (N.A.A.C.P. terms) will never diminish, that persecution, prosecution of and fury against the Negro will prevail until their numbers are eliminated or substantially reduced, and preferably exterminated...