Word: lessened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year, he said that more selective admissions and no enrollment increases would be unfortunate, "not only because ... admissions techniques are not sufficiently sensitive always to pick the 'right' ones, but even more because such a policy would lessen the total weight of the private college in our total educational landscape...
...Whack. The old economic saw is out of whack in 1954 for several reasons. The first is that steel, while still vital, has lost some of its relative importance on the U.S. industrial scene. In the past few years, vast new industries have grown up to lessen steel's weight. Such war babies as plastics and light metals are booming in peacetime-and cutting into steel's old markets: in July aluminum production rose to 252 million Ibs., a new record. Electronics is now a $5 billion annual business; TV sales hit an alltime high...
...being repatriated under the recent French-Viet Minh agreement. The stories they told were not calculated to increase good will towards the Communist Viet Minh at a moment when the French were trying to conclude peace. The French put on two relays of censors at Hanoi and Saigon to lessen the impact of the last march from Dienbienphu...
...your anti-British periodical you repeatedly gibe at British policy during the Munich crisis. Will you please state, clearly and succinctly, what the U.S. government did during that crisis to lessen the danger of war? I suggest that the answer be given, clearly and succinctly, in one word: nothing...
Scrupulous Sanitation. There is no curative treatment. Gamma globulin, given while the infectious form of the disease is incubating, may greatly lessen the severity of the attack or actually prevent it. But once the infection is full-blown, doctors can do nothing more than put their patients to bed, and feed them a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet with plenty of vitamins...