Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutted when Labor leader "Old George" Lansbury protested that the government had written into the King's speech "not one word about measures to lessen unemployment...
...bonds of a thirteen-year tradition, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences upon the recommendation of the administrative Board has voted to abolish the Rank List, for upper classmen. Since the inception of the tutorial system there has been felt a necessity for such action in order to lessen the emphasis placed upon course grades, and to give proportionate credit for tutorial work...
Instituting a new system this year, seats may be reserved in advance. These seats will be held until 3.55 o'clock and this innovation is expected to lessen the necessity of standing three hours or more in dismal company outside the New Lecture Hall. The tickets may be obtained from the University Information Office, Room A, University Hall...
...last night before a group of Harvard Square merchants at a meeting held at the Continental Hotel. "Operating costs in Cambridge are 50 per cent greater than in any other city in Massachusetts of the same size and type, and any demand that Harvard pay taxes to help lessen the financial burdens now being carried by the city government might well gain the answer that Cambridge first help itself by lowering its operating expenses...
...CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka, 1924) will be well...