Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lessen the tempo means to fall behind?and backward we are beaten. We do not want to be beaten. The whole history of old Russia amounted to repeated beatings because of its backwardness...
...Large endowments are too often for some particular purpose. The result is an irregular growth which tends to keep current expenses high and raises rather than lowers the cost of a college education. Unconditional bequests such as this swell the sometimes neglected endowment funds and help to lessen the expensive discrepancy that often exists in the Universities between the endowed and the unendowed branches...
...Hampshire forestry. He played the violin. But everyone did not know that he had married twice (Louise Wheeler in 1889. Elizabeth Mooney in 1905), that he had quietly divorced his first wife, had been divorced in Reno by his second. But his disapproval of women in public did not lessen his esteem for their personal capacities...
...addition there is a large number that place hats and coats on the tables, leaving little space for writing or reading. The library officials have done all in their power to extend the facilities of Widener to those who study there. It now remains for the students to lessen their own burden by displaying a modieum of thoughtfulness and consideration...
...that has carried it to victory in every game so far this season. The overwhelming scores of both the Toronto and the Army games indicate that the Crimson has a team with a scoring punch. Coach Stubbs has two forward lines of almost equal strength and substitutions do not lessen the speed of the team. The problem of a second string goalie is practically the only worry that is confronting the Harvard mentor at the present time. Hale, Bartol, and Wendell have all been tried in recent games but none has as yet asserted his supremacy over the others. Hale...