Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer's tours are of three main types: Study tours will travel in groups of between 25 and 70 and will visit European countries to study their social conditions and culture. Workcamps and workcamp tours will be in operation for those who wish to lessen the expenses of going abroad. Summer study seminars are also organized to permit students to study in schools on the continent...
...breeders, or converters, will lessen the waste, presumably by causing more neutrons to be absorbed byU-238. If the amount of plutonium or other nuclear fuel thus produced is larger than the U-235 consumed, the pile could continue in operation for a very long time. First the original U-235 would be consumed, yielding energy and plutonium made out of 11-238. Then some of the plutonium would fission, yielding energy and creating more atomic fuel. Theoretically, the process might continue until all the 11-238 is consumed. Natural uranium could yield something like 140 times as much energy...
...still a question. At first the U.S. and British delegations passed the entire thing off as "pure propaganda," pointing to the first Russian proposal. Some groups from small nations, even outside of the Communist sphere, however, thought that such a resolution could do not harm, and might even lessen the international tension. After the Russian recognition of China's Communist government, the U. S. State Department concentrated its attacks on the impossibility of a Big Five pact under the new conditions...
...group, which began its altruism last month by paving the mud-slough on upper Plympton Street, had planned to lessen pre-game crowding on Anderson bridge by shunting part of the traffic across on a rowboat...
What an appalling blunder in public relations ... If Mrs. Roosevelt's attitude constitutes anti-Catholicism, then I've got news for the cardinal: this country is just full of "anti-Catholics" who feel just as she does on this subject. And his methods have done anything but lessen their number...