Word: diminisher
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...part of its area to showing amputees how they can lead active, useful lives. In South Korea there are now four prosthetic stations; Torrey and his fellow missionaries have fitted more than 800 artificial limbs and treated nearly 1,000 amputees. There is little likelihood that the work will diminish: land mines, unexploded shells, unguarded railway crossings, and the dearth of safety devices on machinery will bring thousands more to the clinic...
Yesterday's Senate vote to censure Senator Joseph R. McCarthy will substantially improve the United States' prestige abroad and diminish "mass liysteria" now prevalent within the country, four faculty members who have opposed McCarthy said last night...
While the retaliation was unusual, the heralded Dartmouth unity was not. Needless to say, the combined effort succeeded, and neither a tax nor a city hall resulted. Now, at a time far removed from the legendary past, that Dartmouth spirit is beginning to diminish. No longer are the Men of the Green content to find their entertainment in fraternities or outing clubs...
...welcome reproduction of their work, since it widens their fame, but they generally miss out on royalties (in the U.S.. an artist must specifically reserve copyright on what he sells; otherwise he loses it). Reproductions have increased the nation's appetite for art. but they may also diminish people's longing to own originals...
...While unemployment is higher than during the Korean war, it is on a par with comparable months of 1949 and 1950 and "has shown some tendency to diminish of late...