Word: lessening
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...centre court at Roland Garros was entirely rebuilt this year, with a red clay surface even slower than before. This tended to lessen the celebrated speed of the No. 1 U. S. singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet...
...Widespread depression has tended to lessen the contrast between rich and poor" is the comforting assertion of the hunger stricken author of the editorial. Doubtless he has had the insufferable experience of being deprived of his caviar for breakfast or perhaps this year can have as his extra car only a Buick instead of a Packard...
...situation is not difficult. If Zoology 3 were shifted to the second half-year and were given at the same hour at which Zoology 1 is given the first half, the program would be simplified. These changes would give a better continuity to the subject matter and would much lessen course conflicts...
...working at a 208 per minute rate. Wages are not reduced, but overhead is appreciably cut. Yet dividends pour forth as before. The secret is that the shorter shift is easier to handle, needs no lunch-hours and no replacements during lunch, and is more efficient. Shorter hours lessen the monotony and the production curve moves up, so that even the low spots are higher than before...
...committee as a whole deserves praise. The men have thought only of helping the players of projecting him from injury; they have not attempted to "tamper with the game." From the spectators' point of view it will be little changed. By all possible means the committee has tried to lessen the changes of injury. If this is done the real enjoyment of football as a game will be increased and much of a the hysteria will be diminished...