Word: heightens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be admitted," wrote the strongly pro-Court New York Times, "that this almost equal division . . . when asked to interpret a treaty, does not heighten its prestige...
...endeavor must be made," urged the Royal Commission, "to enhance the efficiency, to heighten earnings and to improve conditions of life. . . . Poverty leads to bad conditions and inefficiency, inefficiency and bad conditions to poverty." Thus the Royal Commission discovered a 20th Century vicious circle similar to the mystic Hindu Wheel of Karma: a series of events everlastingly repeating each other from which the only escape is violently to break the wheel...
...with this enterprise except that it allowed the distribution of the handbills at the same time as the morning CRIMSON, a paid service which it has extended before. It has no sympathy with the sensationalism of the protest or with the injection of the question of various religions. To heighten the agitation with the emotion of sectarianism is only to disrupt any united protest that might be achieved and to obscure the practical aspect by a cloud of bias, raised because of the irritation of a delicate subject...
...Ontario and others should not eventually be worked into the arrangement. Over and above the fact that it would serve to rejuvenate collegiate hockey in Canada which has been swept aside by the professional and semi-professional interest, the introduction of Canadian hockey into American rinks would serve to heighten the competition in general and to make the game even better by virtue of the contact with Canadian techniques and enthusiasm. --The Dartmouth
THERE are certain events that are of themselves too dramatic for man to dramatize. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo with all its implications is so tremendous that any novel must of necessity diminish rather than heighten its effect. It is not a clever plot: nor is it a highly emotional tour de force. No single imagination can capture in fiction its massive significance...