Word: diminisher
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...will make coolies buy more oil, he hands a drawing of it to his boss (Arthur Byron). When his fiancee jilts him, he marries the first presentable girl (Josephine Hutchinson) he meets in Shanghai because to return to his post single might cause him to look ridiculous and thus diminish his value to the company. Even when, as a reward for years of faithful service, his boss receives a humiliating demotion that will reduce his pension, Stephen Chase is discouraged but not disillusioned. The night his son is born, he leaves his wife to fight a fire in a reserve...
...pictures' profits as well as a salary. When her first pictures were an enormous hit, Hollywood labeled her a fad, but instead of declining like most fads, Mae West ceased to be one, became a U. S. institution. Goin' to Town, unlikely to increase or diminish her prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh by reciting it as though its real meaning were unprintable. Good shot: Mae West's Indian retainer firing off blank cartridges...
...have been a large number of sprained ankles and pulled tendons? Since he must examine every case, he is rushed and is forced to give men summary and unsatisfactory treatment. If a serious condition develops the man may be kept out of his sport for several weeks and may diminish gate receipts. Two more important considerations are the unfairness to the men themselves and to the coaches and teams who suffer from the loss of players...
Several men even went so far as to say that they had not gone out for any activity for fear that the time it would take would necessarily diminish the more solid benefits to be derived from the University which they had bought with their tuition fees...
Since our legislation went into effect the Chinese have seen their stock of white metal diminish. Naturally the value of silver has increased. Thus the people of China are experiencing a deflation arbitrarily created by an outside force quite as much as the people of the United States suffered, after 1929, from the natural deflation that followed our long, unplanned economic expansion. Our Government that has resorted to all expedients to check deflation here apparently looks on Chinese deflation with complete equanimity...