Word: diminisher
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...hear more about Harvard, if it is made clear to them that the College's admission and scholarship policies are non-discriminatory, if representatives emphasize this to outlying high schools--including Negro schools--more qualified Negroes will apply, and the remarkable disproportion of Negroes at the College will soon diminish...
Television, which "has adversely affected conversation, reading and the public taste," will complete the ruin, thinks Hutchins. "The one good thing that radio has given America is a great deal of fine music. This seems fated to diminish as television spreads...
...fact that the council's report also soared off into some sweeping theories about social security and deficit spending did not altogether spoil its conciliatory tone, or diminish its surprise factors. Most of Keyserling's words were sound and sane doctrine that many a businessman had long subscribed to. The wonder was its source...
...last week England's Bishop Stephen C. Neill, an associate general secretary of the council, had something to say about the question: "The World Council of Churches has received no official notification that the Greek Church intends to diminish its participation. We are well aware that there are divisions of opinion within the Greek Church on the subject of the World Council and the relation of the Greek Church to it. Archbishop Michael is a leading representative of one shade of opinion. But it is the Archbishop of Athens, or his official representative, who alone can communicate...
...Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...