Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speculative liquidation as that of 1920-21 will be witnessed, except possibly to a limited extent in real estate. The checkrein to the current expansion of trade and industry will, it is generally agreed, be afforded by the shortage of labor, and the already recognized tendency of labor to lessen productivity under higher wages, which is usually a sign that the peak of prosperity is not far away...
...same predicament as the author of "Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight," and he was certainly no more successful. Mechanical means of saving time are always ingenious and often convenient, but they lack the necessary "human factor". The use of "fifteen minutes a day," for instance, will lessen the disappointment when "time itself shall be no more...
There is one further profit to be had from this scheme. The tutor theoretically, is the one agent in the educational outfit who can, through his personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student...
...Library room could be kept open until eleven-thirty o'clock it would not only help such men but it would lessen considerably the number of books taken out of the Library overnight. Thoughtless improvements for Widener are easy to suggest; funds are lacking even for well-considered ones. But the remedy in this case is simple and practicable, and the expense seems justified by the number of students whose time and convenience would be served. The History reading-room, on the ground floor, seems the most logical room to keep open. If this room were used, the rest...
Even in Boston, it is almost impossible to get a pound of hard coal. To alleviate this hardship, the city government undertook to sell coke, which it had put up in bags by convict labor to lessen the cost. The price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited...