Word: diminishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...timekeeping, but to no avail. The immigration authorities held that some deadline must be observed in the execution of the law, the midnight rule must be strictly adhered to. The effect may be to decrease the haste of steamer captains in trying to cross the imaginary line, and thereby diminish the danger of collision in the narrow channel at the entrance of New York Harbor...
...others have changed color or broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed there. The most distinctive features of the Martian topography are the polar snowcaps, brilliant white patches at the respective poles, which expand in the Martian winter and diminish in summer, just as the arctic regions on the earth. The color changes in the canals and spots are also seasonal, and very suggestive of vegetation. These and other observations have led to the irresistible conclusion that Mars has air, water, warmth, and vegetable life. The planet is 4,230 miles...
...fact that everyone stands on the brink of a precipice does not in any way tend to diminish the number of University activities...
...season of the year, but business leaders are inclined to think consumption has begun to overtake production, and that further increases in the rate of output would be for a speculative purpose alone. Wages are generally rising, however, and in general profits in industry and trade seem likely to diminish. The rise in sugar, with its considerable political reaction (see page 2) provided the center of interest and discussion...
...reported that the decision was made necessary by the growing unpopularity of the Moscow Soviet with the Soviets of the provinces. Other reports, less convincing, state that the Moscow Government intends to make radical changes in the Soviet constitution in order to diminish the power of the provincial Soviets, already greatly curtailed...