Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hopkins definition of unemployables is "all chronic dependents," including the aged, the sick, the crippled, the insane, widows. They constitute about 20%, of the 19,000,000 persons now on relief. But last week's move will not lighten the Federal burden by 20%. because many a state and city is already caring for its unemployables...
...went to work too, but then Hanna found she was going to have another baby. Other unremarkable misfortunes followed: Peter got blood-poisoning, their furniture was attached for taxes, a general strike made even honest workmen scabs. Their story ends in the midst of the strike, with nothing to lighten the horizon but a possible emigration...
...private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches has seized upon psychological phases of post-war French attitudes with great skill, capitalizing the fact that he is working with new material, but to the English reading public the conviction and justification...
...another year it appears that the Crimson will have a crew capable of winning performances in long distances, but it will probably be too ponderous to win the shorter races over first class competitors. However, the substitution of Tommy Hunter at cox just before the race at Princeton will lighten the boat by 2.2 pounds while still allowing for maximum advantage in weight and power...
...been felt that to lighten requirements for those who graduate in three years would encourage departure from the normal four-year standard. However, those who seek a three-year degree at the present time do so only for special reasons, and a slight relaxation of requirements would probably not increase this small number. Students seeking a degree in three years do nearly as much tutorial work as all other students and take courses equally advanced. To make possible for the course reduction that all others receive, with fifteen courses required for a degree and possible remission of one course during...