Word: lessening
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...institutions of higher learning fail to grow to meet this increased need, he said, they will "lessen the relative weight of the private colleges in our total educational landscape...
...finally took the pledge, too, though it did not seem to lessen his zest for fun or the game he loved. In recent years he directed the New York Journal-American's sandlot-baseball program. Among his alumni: Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes. Last week, as baseball writers were sealing their ballots for elections to the game's Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Rabbit Maranville, among the leading candidates, died of a heart attack at 61 in his New York City home. There were many who fondly remembered the Rabbit's quick chuckle...
...would spotlight the actual cost of social security and would stop the Government from using social-security taxes to pay other Government bills. It would also lessen the danger that the social-security program, under political pressure, might degenerate into an overliberal program of Ham & Egg handouts from a big trust fund already piled up. The big virtue of pay-as-you-go is that if any pressure group tried to change social-security benefits to its advantage, the added tax would show at once...
...Ford Motor Co. showed off its 1954 Mercury this week and gave the rest of the medium-priced field something to shoot at: a sleek new hardtop model named the Sun Valley. The top over the front seat is made of clear plastic, tinted to lessen the sun's glare; the back half is steel. Mercury first tried out its new top on a pair of experimental cars, found that the public liked it well enough for mass production. Factory list price on the Sun Valley (with such standard accessories as heater, radio, directional signals...
...rotor blades' bite on the air (and simultaneously opening the throttle), he increased their lifting power. But to steer the machine forward, backward or sideways he made the blades subject, also, to something much more complicated, called cyclical pitch. This forced the bite of each individual blade to lessen as it swung toward the direction in which the control stick was moved?and then to gradually increase back to maximum pitch as it traveled through the next 180 degrees of its circle. Thus, if the stick was pushed forward, the helicopter would move ahead because the blades pushed harder...