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Word: lessening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brewster Kopp '47 and Robin F. Worthington '47 will defend the negative position for Harvard in tonight's debate. Among the Judges will be Walter J. Cunningham, instructor in Physics and senior tutor of Adams Houses, and Kurt W. Lessen, proctor in Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS TO FACE COLUMBIA SQUAD | 2/8/1946 | See Source »

...when all the pawnshops are closed. He tumbles down a flight of stairs and wakes up in the city's alcoholic ward. The proper amount of ironic humor is observed in all that happens to the boozing hero, but the humor only relieves and does not lessen the cumulative horror of his predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...delegates at San Francisco, saying that the conference must find a way to peace. Ordinary Britons and Americans wanted as never before to under stand Russia, and found it harder than ever to do so. Sadly, they were dis covering that victory in Europe had done nothing to lessen the tensions among the victors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Peace | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Since distribution difficulties within Europe were a big factor, the U.S. might lessen the demand for food by shipping locomotives and trucks. A few ships carrying North African phosphates across the Mediterranean would produce food which otherwise would have to be sent across the Atlantic. Feed for European livestock would greatly help Europe to provision its own table. But even with perfect planning (plus good weather), the U.S. probably would have to eat less to win the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Statesmen v. Housewives | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Said Paul Joseph Goebbels "The war has passed its climax. This, however, will not mean that the intensity will lessen. On the contrary, in its last phase, there will be a brio furioso of arms, and a sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: Heartbreak House | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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