Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affirmative position in the question: "Resolved, That the Constitution be amended to permit the passage of treaties by a simple majority in both houses," were Ronald G. Newburgh '46 and Arthur D. Sporn '47. Their opponents were Leonard Zariman and Donald Hackel, Judges for debate included Kurt W. Lessen and William F. Weeks of Lowell House...
Judges included Charles W. Duhig '29 assistant dean of Harvard College, Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer in History and Master of Lowell House, and Kurt Lessen, resident tutor in Lowell House...
...keen to get on with its sales job. Delay in declaring a plant surplus can lessen its sales value, as labor moves away from a plant with an uncertain future. So DPC is now negotiating on a conditional basis for the sale or lease of more than 70 plants, has issued descriptive brochures on 125 others. Most encouraging, DPC is ready to lease the plants, in whole or part, make loans big enough to cover the entire purchase price. Credit will be "liberal," to make certain that as many plants as possible are used postwar...
...would be the port of entry. It was a foregone conclusion that the Nazis' demolitions would wreck the tide gates of Cherbourg's commercial basin; they might have some temporary success in blocking the entrances to the harbor by sinking ships. But there was little they could do to lessen the usefulness of the magnificent roadstead...
...March graduates include: George C. Adams '44, of Charlotte, North Carolina and Lowell House; James E. Connor, Jr. '44, of New Haven, Connecticut and Lowell House; Peter Frank '44, of Cambridge; Henry R. Krakauer '44, of Paterson, New Jersey and Adams House; Kurt Lessen, of Cawnpore, India and Lowell House; Cornelius J. Peck '44, V-12, of Iron Mountain, Michigan; and Alan T. Wenzell '44, NROTC, of New York City...