Word: diminisher
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...stand out more for what they were than for what they did." Such, this week, was the "definitive" guess of Biographer Fuess, 55-year-old headmaster of Andover. Specifically, he admitted that Coolidge lacked "broad vision," originality, imagination. Such admissions testify to Biographer Fuess' fairness; they do not diminish one whit his great admiration for Coolidge...
...harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi ship after another has left sanctuary and tried running the Allied blockade to get home. Rule No. 1 of Germany's sea war being to diminish Allied tonnage, Rule No. 1 for homing German ships is to scuttle rather than be seized. Last week Paris reported half the German fleet moving into the North Sea, perhaps to cover the return of Nazi merchantmen. Allied naval forces tensed themselves...
...down below Japan's fleets of bombers, American surgeons, supported by countless church missionary suppers, labor night and day removing the shrapnel which crashes into Chinese flesh almost directly from our own scrap-iron heaps. Their medical supplies diminish as Japan announces that these materials will no longer be admitted...
...only General Anastasio Somoza, President of little Nicaragua (pop. 1,133,000), but this show for him was in all details precisely the reception planned for King George & Queen Elizabeth of mighty Great Britain next month. Fact that it was a dress rehearsal for that occasion did not diminish the fact that it came first, that it was as handsome a performance as any Latin-American heart could desire, that it was a gesture intended to honor all the Good Neighbors as well as Nicaragua...
...worldwide catastrophe, if it continues to follow its geometric destiny, it will go on rising, but more slowly, and will flatten out some 160 years hence at a population figure of 2,600,000,000. Reasons: contraception, postponement of the marriage age, an obscure biological factor which tends to diminish the fertility of Homo sapiens...