Word: diminisher
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...which are inevitably his first portion. If by means of personal conferences, group discussions, and talks by recognized authorities continued through out the year, the Social Service Committee can guarantee faithful, honest work to the institutions with which it cooperates, the prevalent unfortunate impression of collegiate triflers will appreciably diminish, and the twin ideals of service and civic responsibility will have an opportunity at least of rising to the place which they deserve to hold in undergraduate thought...
...secondly, that if and when payments derived by Great Britain from European War debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for the full discharge of British obligations toward the United States oyer the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's Allies...
...course, Dr. Jeans did not confine his consideration of relativity to the hypothetical existence or nonexistence of other planetary systems. His other conclusions include: 1) that the universe is slowly expanding; 2) that stars, in giving off heat and light, diminish in mass (weight), that the sun, for example, loses about four million tons of weight a second; 3). that, as a star becomes smaller, its speed increases...
Follies, Fall Edition. Mr. Ziegfeld has caused to have inserted in the daily press tidings that henceforth the Follies will remain in Manhattan the year 'round. To the end that their popularity shall not diminish, he reports that three times after the opening he will invigorate the exercises with new material. The first of these invigorations is now on sale. The new ingredients are the Russian Lilliputians and Mitty and Tillio, French dancers; a pair of athletes called the Athenas; and new acts for Vivienne Segal, Lupino Lane, and minor revision in the monolog of Will Rogers...
...should be unwilling to participate in any political campaign at this time which would imperil the steady advance of the Progressive movement or diminish the number of true Progressives, nominally elected as Republicans and Democrats, who are now serving the public in the House, the Senate and in many of the State Governments. The ground already won must not be abandoned. . . . An analysis of the platforms adopted by the two old parties will show that the real issues have been ignored and that the candidate of either party, if elected, will go into office with no specific pledges whatsoever binding...