Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...
With parliamentary governments functioning in both Austria and Germany, it is no longer possible for the occupation forces to return to any sort of direct control. The Nazis are back for a long stay. The best that can be done is to diminish their influence by giving every reasonable encouragement to the democratic regimes...
Since fewer meals will, presumably, be taken at the Dinning Halls, I find it very singular that the average, and hence the total, charge per person should rise rather than diminish: in other words, that the Dining Galls management either cannot deal accurately with figures or does not wish to, two alternatives which one is equally reluctant to accept. Harold P. Furth...
Modern newspaper practises of trying to get everything into the first sentence and of listing fasts without attempting to explain their significance diminish the informativeness of newspapers and often mislead the reader, Lyons asserted...
...decision to keep the Government in the grain business was a victory for Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, who does not want to diminish CCC's power to exert control over grain markets. The election, Brannan apparently thought, had given the Administration a mandate to continue the kind of Government trading that Congress had frowned...