Word: diminisher
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...young Corrado de Catolica. When he becomes a shadow again at the end of three days, Prince Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella from which this picture was adapted does not diminish the charm of Death Takes a Holiday. It remains a serious poetic riddle, imperfect, thoughtful, delicately morbid...
...apparent irrecencilability of these groups is unfortunate, since a split, in the Club would greatly diminish its potential usefulness. A properly organized liberal club, by providing preminent speakers and, incidentally, the machinery for a really effective political lobby could be as useful to the College as a whole as to its members. These ends can only be achieved by a united club possessing the confidence of the college. A serious rupture now, however, would mean the end of a program dedicated to these ends and probably cause the Liberal Club to fall back into its customary position...
Realizing the present difficulty of men who are trying for scholarship aid, who are forced to "plan their work with the sole aim of obtaining the highest marks possible," the President feels that this method of awarding scholarships would "tend to diminish greatly the emphasis placed on grades obtained in courses. In this same direction the Report reveals that it might be a wise step forward to abolish the rank list itself for the upper classes. Modification such as this would of course be more in line with the shift of emphasis away from course grades and towards the development...
...Insofar as the NRA works to diminish poverty it is worth supporting because there is a direct relation between poverty and crime. The criminal is usually from the poorer classes and being continually oppressed by the rich from childhood, he eventually commits some act against them that brings him before the courts. Once sent to the penitentiary there is little hope for him. No man that goes in comes out improved and ninety per cent of them are recommitted...
...from the point of view of social well-being the national income is so uncertain a quantity and the conditions under which it is earned of such great contributing importance that the liberal economist's confident assertion that such and such a bit, or even program, of "meddling" will diminish the national income need not frighten us very much...