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Word: diminish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputniks should serve to stimulate scientific research, even as Korea shocked the United States out of a total military lapse. Any attempt to diminish the shock effect should have been carried out with more attention to its beneficial aspects. If people are somewhat disturbed about the possibility of Soviet air and space superiority they will be more willing to pay for programs to regain a lead. If, however, they are allowed or encouraged to slip back into apathy, Russia's margin which does not depend on her public psychology, will increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sacrifice for Action | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Pledges to the Program will be collected over a period of several years, so contributions to the Harvard Fund are expected to diminish during the two or three years following the end of solicitation of "lifetime" gifts for the Program for Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Fund Expects Annual Drive Cutback To Net $750,000 Loss | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

...radical movement arises, which Conant thinks unlikely if Germany's economy remains stable, it will not be connected with Nazism. He noted that United States support of NATO and a stable world economy will also diminish the chance of the appearance of such a movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Tells Cambridge Audience Nazi Movement Dead in Germany | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

...which religious "competition" meant fire and death. The need for tolerance is thus the major moral Durant draws from the Reformation-which would never have happened had not "intolerant" men been willing to die (or kill) for their beliefs. Yet this somewhat anticlimactic touch of gentle rationalism does not diminish the excellence of Author Durant's work, and in a way perhaps foreshadows the subject of his next volume, The Age of Reason, to be published in five years-if, as Durant puts it, "the Reaper will stay his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Age of Flame | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...lacquer wave-set compound. The operation is performed in the normal manner, but surgeons need expose less than three-quarters of an inch of scalp in making the incision. Dr. Williams notes that many women become depressed after having their heads shaved, feels the new technique will help diminish anxiety over brain surgery. So far Dr. Williams has used the hair-saving method in 20 operations without a single infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Without a Shave | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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