Word: diminisher
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...dropped back to 1950 levels. Retailers blamed the drop on the freezing weather and the price freeze, which had stopped most of the beat-the-price-rise buying. If sales stay down, some of the frantic inventory buying, which has pushed up wholesale prices, is bound to diminish. Retailers are not yet worried about being caught with their stocks up. But soon they might...
Neither Sir Ernest nor his heir needs fear that the prime source of the dynasty's power will ever diminish. One of the first great Randlords, old Barney Barnato, put it tersely, many years before Flapper Lorelei Lee: "Women are born every day, and men will always buy diamonds for women...
...annual convention of the American National Cattlemen's Association, meeting in San Francisco last week, came out flatly against both price controls and subsidies for meat. Reason: they diminish production and kill initiative. Said Executive Secretary Fernand E. Mollin: "[They] would do what they did in the last war, drive meat out of the market and leave nothing but pigs' knuckles...
...shoulders with reality. "If young men . . . are formed in character in an atmosphere too far removed from the world, when they leave the seminary they may find serious difficulties in their relations with the faithful and also with cultured laity . . . It is necessary to diminish gradually and with due prudence the present detachment of the future priest from the people so that he will not feel lost at the beginning of his ministry...
Universities and legislatures that deviate from this rule do actual harm to their struggle against Communism: they prevent teachers from pointing out hitches in our way of life, and hinder, rather than help the discovery of solutions to national problems. Moreover, they diminish those very individual liberties that we are right now struggling to save...