Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, the Scholarship office has attempted to further lighten the increased financial burden by easing grade standards required for the renewal of scholarships and aid grants. The University has also increased its allowances to scholarship students for personal and travel expenses...
...PRICED ALUMINUM cans are starting to roll out, eventually will reduce shipping costs and lighten housewife's grocery bag. United States Can Corp. will sell 6-oz. seamless aluminum aerosol cans for as little as 4.5? each, figures price is slightly less than average for equivalent steel-based...
...BECAUSE the X-ray machine can penetrate the surface of a painting without doing any damage, it has long been an indispensable tool for art historians. Layers of paint on canvas (including the liberal amounts of white lead used by old masters to lighten their pigments) absorb X rays in varying amounts, thus producing on a negative a revealing shadowgraph. To the trained art scholar's eye, an X ray of a painting can often reveal its whole history, from the first unseen priming coat the artist put on the canvas, through the artist's corrections and overpainting...
...McNulty's world, half a block of stores has recently been razed to make room for the cleanly headquarters of the Girl Scouts of America, who will have no difficulty at all in identifying the trees. It is all very sad, but McNulty's work remains to lighten the loss. His art was as well-hidden and as obvious as a horse parlor. Officially it did not exist, but it was there...
...drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...