Word: diminisher
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...raise and wound up being asked to take a cut. They recently petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 50?-per-ticket increase in first-class fares, hoping that the raise would make up for some of the $17 million in annual excess-baggage charges that will begin to diminish this week when more generous baggage allowances go into effect.* The CAB not only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares. This was the board's first significant pronouncement under Lawyer Charles S. Murphy, 55, former Under...
...only regret is that about one-third of West Germany's adults do not read books (according to a recent Gallup poll, 77% of the Americans it queried had not cracked a book within the past year). Mohn figures that Germany's small number of nonreaders will diminish if and when he can find more salesmen in the labor-short country to sell books from door to door...
Weil and his colleagues are to be congratulated for a sophisticated and balanced treatment of a subject which to their knowledge and mine has never before been recognized as a discreet "field." There is indeed a New Psychology in the offing--a psychology which can only glorify rather than diminish the stature of man's mind. Those who are concerned to preserve the sentiment of Wonder have no cause for concern, for there is as much to wonder at in the marvelous mental mechanisms that are only now becoming clear as in all the works of art and literature that...
Most critical was John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, who deplored the decision as "a step toward making the Houses into dormitories." Its effect will be to "diminish the character and continuity of the Houses," while the long-run problem is to increase their character, he said...
...Even if it works, the credulity with which American accept what Johnson tells them will diminish. To say one week that troops are being sent to protect American lives, the next week that they are there to fight Communist rebels, and the week after that the rebels are not Communists, might work in a totalitarian state. But it will not work indefinitely...