Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eight-hour system would lessen the number of unemployed, and diminish social dangers. Report of N. J. Bureau of Statistics for 1886, p. 228. Gunton, supra...
...third and last championship game to be played in Cambridge, and this alone ought to lead a large number of men to go out to see the game. The fact that the University of Pennsylvania has been badly beaten by Yale and Princeton has a natural tendency to diminish the interest in this game; but there is every prospect that this will be a last and interesting opportunity of seeing what excellent work our eleven can do. The enthusiasm which is so prevalent in college, and the expectations for success which are now so high in everybody's mind, ought...
...ransacked old account-books, have explained sudden variations of expenses occuring in successive years, have reported the means by which they have been able to earn money, have offered valuable criticisms of their own outlays and of those modes of living here which in their judgement materially increase or diminish cost. Again and again they have frankly acknowledged extravagance, and about as often have confided to me their struggles to live on less than was wise. In short they have given me just the information I desired and have then requested me to write again if I wished for more...
...Resolved, That the new requirements for admission to Harvard College tend to diminish the value of the degree of Batchelor of Arts...
...Bicycle Club is out with an innovation in the direction of annual dinners. Hereafter this feast will be at the expense of the five members who have ridden the least. If this rule were to be adopted by the H. B. C. the number of associate members would speedily diminish...