Word: diminisher
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...tomorrow, there are only vague ideas as to whether rigid requirements will mount or diminish. Today, students and head-masters seem to have a hazy idea that higher educational institutions are "loosening up" and "getting progressive." They seem to be suffering under some delusion based on the abolition of November grades and attendance and on that assumption are neglecting the study of the basic cultural and disciplinary subjects...
Health, wealth and wisdom encompassed the 966 osteopaths who attended the American Osteopathic Association's convention in Wichita, Kans. last week. Wichita's temperature went as high as 102° but failed to diminish the vigor of the osteopaths as they bustled between lectures, shows, dances, banquets. They crowded Wichita's three good hotels, dressed mostly in white, doffed their coats...
...have a new stock exposed to unusually severe climatic conditions and, in addition, living at a relatively high altitude. . . Here we have the genital malformations in the region of the cyclonic infall and along the storm tracks. Is it not likely that these malformations, which would tend to diminish in frequency in an older, permanently domiciled population. . . appear here because a new population not previously subject to such climatic trauma would yield a relatively larger number of malformations of this type...
...probabilities, however, are that the higher priced cigarette manufacturers would be compelled to put out a 10-cent cigarette to meet the competition, the public would get a poorer quality of cigarette all around, and the revenues which the government thought it had from the 15-cent product would diminish materially, and the farmer would get less for his product...
...Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike...