Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fully realize the present needs of many of our own people and also of the Polish people as well, the committee of which I am also a member. I would not wish any contributions to this fund for Finland to lessen the support of all these needs. But . . . Americans should also make sacrifices for them...
WASHINGTON -- Tiny Belgium is feeling the pinch of the shipping restrictions under America's new Neutrality Act and joined with Ireland today to see whether the Administration could lessen the pressure...
...seriously the offer of such an appointment. Thus, it would not be surprising if in the long run the policy here urged actually escaped the objection stated at the outset--of a substantial surplus of permanent associate professors. By the same token the proposed policy would better rather than lessen the chances of younger teachers not yet up for permanent appointment. This would be true, indeed, even if the percentage of associate professors staying on at the University remained unchanged. For an increase in the number of permanent appointees in the younger ages could in no event decrease the rate...
...build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies, of developing untapped resources, of acting generally like Good Neighbors...
...Among lenitives of other kinds many people will give a high place to the daily cross word. . . . Specially fortunate in wartime evenings is the chess player with a friendly opponent on the other side of the table. . . . A lenitive wisely used will lessen strain, will increase courage and composure, will help us through the hours of darkness, literal and metaphorical, to the sunlight that surely lies beyond...