Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday's Senate vote to censure Senator Joseph R. McCarthy will substantially improve the United States' prestige abroad and diminish "mass liysteria" now prevalent within the country, four faculty members who have opposed McCarthy said last night...
While the retaliation was unusual, the heralded Dartmouth unity was not. Needless to say, the combined effort succeeded, and neither a tax nor a city hall resulted. Now, at a time far removed from the legendary past, that Dartmouth spirit is beginning to diminish. No longer are the Men of the Green content to find their entertainment in fraternities or outing clubs...
...welcome reproduction of their work, since it widens their fame, but they generally miss out on royalties (in the U.S.. an artist must specifically reserve copyright on what he sells; otherwise he loses it). Reproductions have increased the nation's appetite for art. but they may also diminish people's longing to own originals...
...While unemployment is higher than during the Korean war, it is on a par with comparable months of 1949 and 1950 and "has shown some tendency to diminish of late...
...year campaign against yellow fever was pro-American and that those who gave their lives in the foundation's successful fight against this pestilence served America, as well as the rest of mankind, as truly as did the soldier who gave his life in battle ... It does not diminish America's gain to know that others benefitted as well, nor does it subtract from the end result to know that the impetus came from a desire to 'promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' " ¶ That the foundations have an "internationalist" bias. "We find...