Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over 15% of a normal "Amos 'n' Andy program is Pepsodent ballyhoo and to cut this down to 5% would clearly diminish, perhaps spoil, the sales value of the program...
...earth were to pass through the nucleus of a comet, only a small number of these chunks of matter would hit the Earth, and, at their average velocity of 20 miles per second, the friction of the atmosphere would be sufficient to destroy the smaller chunks entirely, and to diminish the size of the large ones to such an extent that the effect would be largely that of harmless fireworks. However, it is probable that a few large pieces of metal, having diameters as much as a mile long, would reach the Earth and cause considerable damage. As a matter...
...large numbers of microfilariae art still present, the individual should be regarded as a dangerous carrier and isolated until the parasites diminish or disappear...
According to last week's best judgment, the currency club would start swinging just enough to produce the necessary psychological momentum. Hoarders would redeposit their cash; banks would breathe easier; the demand for Federal Reserve loans would diminish; the machinery of normal banking would pick up speed by itself; the currency club, having served its initial purpose, would go back on the shelf...
Every depression is bound temporarily to diminish our lending; a continuation of our present tariff policy will mean that we shall intensify future depressions, an we have the present one, by attracting gold which the rest of the world can ill afford to lose and by menacing the stability of many weak currencies. In addition, we shall retard the revival of business, because the countries which have been forced off the gold standard or which have had the stability of their currencies seriously threatened, will, even after the revival is under way, not easily obtain credit to but goods from...