Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...That all men are brothers is a noble and Christian thought but human experience has demonstrated that it is, at best, nothing more than a pleasant theory. . . . To abolish war effectively we must contrive to lessen the intense economic tension. . . . Any reduction in armaments is desirable on the ground of national economy but if we believe that such a reduction would put an end to war-unless the movement is accompanied by profound economic adjustments-we are simply deceiving ourselves...