Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words, labelling and shaping the main currents of the plot. Marlene Dietrich talks with hardly a trace of accent. In her first U. S. picture she lives up to the elaborate publicity issued for her. Her curiously combined resemblances to Greta Garbo and the late Jeanne Eagels do not lessen the impact of her own personality. Gary Cooper's expert underacting as the hero and Adolphe Menjou's return to the U. S. screen are other reasons for Morocco being a good picture. Menjou has a comparatively unimportant role as a disappointed and aging hedonist, a role he has taken...
...guests, among whom was Secretary of Labor James John Davis, did not foregather at Greens Farms secretly, as implied, but by general invitation, to once more consider an agreement subscribed to by a majority of paper mill owners at Washington, providing for a five-day operating program to lessen overproduction...
President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, recently recommended the abolishment of the degree of master of arts at Harvard in a report which also suggested the abolishment of intercollegiate athletics. What Dr. Lowell had to say about athletics overshadowed the rest of the report, but did not lessen the interest of the educational world in regard to the suggested abolishment of the A.M. degree...
...further hampered by having charge of a dozen or so tutees. On top of this, is their own research work; encouraged, if it is not demanded, by the college. Often, there are various administrative duties added to all the others. The House Plan, moreover, will not tend to lessen the time that must be devoted to administration. These things, doled out in measure, are ideal; piled on in excesses, they must surely restrain and hinder the attainment of the aims of both professor and student...
More than 1500 of these publications are received by subscription of the University while the remaining are accounted for by gift subscriptions and free reports from learned societies. These come to Harvard from all parts of the world. To lessen accounting work the majority are handled by agencies which take care of 200 or more...