Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan to study best U. S. birth control methods. Gowned in a kimono of blue silk wound with an elaborate. flowered obi (sash) the Baroness said: "Birth control alone will not solve Japan's problems. They will not be met until the economic system is changed. . . . Birth control will lighten the burden of ignorance and distress...
...such action will relieve the taxation burden, thereby releasing purchasing power, and start the wheels of industry to humming. Second, then Liberty Bond owners, instead of coupon-clipping, will help make the wheels hum faster. Third, the Liberty Bond owners are heavy taxpayers. A cancellation of Government obligations would lighten their tax burdens...
...Japan at present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...
...result of these changes will be to lighten some of the requirements both for concentration and for honors. On the other hand, the requirements are made more severe by several changes. First, additional correlation questions shall be required in the special field examinations, and second, the departmental or the special examination may be lengthened to four hours, if the department concerned so votes...
...holes punched in every duralumin girder to lighten it until it looks like a piece of metal lace (yet the girder is made stronger than before by flanging the edges of the holes...