Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been downward for the past hundred years, in a generation births will be from 20 to 35% under re placement level. The elements of a popu lation program are contained in the Gov ernment's interest in public education, housing, recreation facilities, health & welfare organizations - all of which lessen the economic burden of having children. But these programs are all uncoordinated. Because "in an industrial society large families lead inevitably to lower levels of living for all but a few favored parents," Frederick Osborn believes the only sound population policy stresses "freedom of parenthood" - freedom not to have chil...
...weigh these arguments again. By extending our economic aid to the Allies, we make an Allied victory more certain, and we lessen our chances of entering the war. It is only when the Allies are in danger of disastrous rout that the full forces of pro-war pressure will be unleashed. Only in this way can our impartial voice have a right to be heard in the peace treaty which will mold the future of the world...
Combined fields and "areas" of concentration were approved in principle by the Faculty last year as a means to cut across departmental lines and to lessen overspecialization. Several combined fields have already been established, while a program for an "area" in social sciences is now being considered by the Faculty...
...with him, he aphorized on the heartaches of friendship: "Let a man come close enough and he'll clutch you like a drowning person, and down you both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert Hubbard...
...Tackle the same old Farm Problem, with election and drought-year variations (including proposals to economize on benefit payments, revive processing taxes in order to lessen the drain on regular revenues...