Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural rubber won't work on synthetics, where each type must be differently treated.) But rubber experts are skeptical of most inventions or improvements. Said President L. Collyer of Goodrich last week: "No laboratory or garden miracle that may be performed now can be capitalized in time to lessen in any degree the necessity that faces this nation today of taking every rubber-saving step that...
...Education, released last night, is particularly timely, then, since it deals primarily with just these problems of preserving a liberal education in war-time, by means of improved and integrated tutorial, and changes in concentration requirements. The report deserves careful consideration and study, not as an attempt to lessen the impact of the conflict, but as the core of the University's contribution to the war effort, and to education after...
...Mandai and Sungei Kranji. The sprawling suburbs of Singapore heard the whine of machine gun bullets almost constantly above the roar of strafing planes. In the whole day there were only 31 minutes free from bombing from the air. Defending artillery fire still rumbled comfortingly, but it seemed to lessen. The skies were red with the flames of burning oil tanks, and then smoke palled the air. Singapore radio suddenly went dead...
...could never forget what that news was. Four B's! He rolled the words over and over on his tongue, four B's, four B's, four B's. The fact that each of those B's had a little dash connoting minus after it did not lessen the ecstasy he felt in his mouth as those delicious sounds rolled off his tongue; four B's, four B's. That night, with his head resting on his desk blotter, Vag dreamed that he had joined the immortals...
These sins of omission lessen the weight of the book. The question: What sort of man is Franklin Roosevelt? is not yet clear enough to answer. Mr. Johnson's shrewd argument-that the President is not only a democrat, but a great one-may remove fears that many Americans hold about Mr. Roosevelt. But the fear that the President is leading the country into some kind of Socialism only time and Mr. Roosevelt himself can banish...