Word: diminisher
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...trudging up to the oaken doors and painted windows through which no light will enter for the next two weeks, the men of 14 Plympton Street this morning agreed to diminish light all over the University, and thus will not appear in public until Friday, will hide beneath bushels next week except for Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...