Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burdened with debt that they were unable to pay even their fixed charges, much less to buy new equipment. Some people urged Government loans but that, declared the President, did not seem feasible. Some way, he suggested, would have to be found to readjust the railroads' capital structures, lighten their interest burdens. But he did not plan to do anything about it at this session of Congress...
Chicago and gangsters are connected in the minds of all schoolboys and Europeans, yet from Chicago comes a distinctly cheery beam to lighten the gloomy pall of crime that hangs over America, the land of the free. The Windy City's crime commission has confidently denied the possibility of a revival of gang wars, declaring that "there is nothing left to fight about." If this statement is true, and not merely an empty vaunting of civic pride, then Chicago has undeniably justified the hopes of the prophets who freed the country from prohibition shackles...
...strongly urge that the proceeds of this tax should be specifically segregated and applied, as they accrue, to the reduction of the national debt. By so doing, we shall progressively lighten the tax burden of the average taxpayer, and, incidentally, assist in our approach to a balanced budget...
...committee, which advocated a change in Physics C toward making it more thorough and more advanced. More advanced should mean, however, that the course ought to go more deeply into fundamentals, rather than "passing rapidly over them," as stated in the report. A further change that would lighten the burdens of the department would be to open Physics B to men who had had physics in school, but were inadequately prepared for more advanced courses...
Although the meeting was closed to the press, it was impossible to hide the evidence of immense quantities of beer brewed in the Merriman cellar which was used to lighten the cares of the Head Master's charges...