Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under U.N. supervision last week, U.S.-occupied South Korea had its first free general election in its 4,000-year history. Communist threats of disruptive violence did not materialize on the scale expected; only 35 people were killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
...hamsters and let them live for a while at pleasant mountain resorts. The idea was to test the theory that high altitudes have an adverse effect on sexual activity. Even at 14,260 feet, all the rodents multiplied with unimpaired efficiency. This altitude, concluded Moore & Price, does not diminish fertility-for rodents, anyway...
...CRIMSON's 75th Anniversary issue last term; "Nowhere else in the College is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed. . . . A man learns to write. . . . This is what enables editors to pass examinations and stay in College, and the value of the lessor does not always diminish in later years." The competition, which will last for ten weeks, is open to freshmen and first term sophomores...
...that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns to write, if not well, at any rate quickly and simply, and generally with the semblance of authority. This is what enables editors to bass examinations and stay in college, and the value of the lesson does not always diminish in later years...
...response to the recent Wigglesworth petition, contractors ordered excess conversation eliminated and worked out several other plans in an effort to diminish all other noise...