Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was jubilation in the city's poorhouses. The Department of Hospitals announced that henceforth paupers will have a choice of nightshirts or pajamas, suits cut like tailors' advertisements and shrink-proof, shoes of 1938; that pauperesses will get flowery percales, felt hats for winter, straws for summer, stockings still cotton but in stylish tan. As a special treat, garters will be issued to both sexes. Reason: the city discovered that the paupers' clothes were so old-fashioned they had to be made to order; it will be cheaper to buy modern clothes from stock...
...synthetic wool are two Government chemists named Stephen P. Gould and Earl O. Whittier. They produced the fiber by a method similar to that used in making rayon from cellulose. The finished product is straw-colored, resembles the best grade, washed and carded Merino wool, but will not shrink so much and is mothproof. By varying the acids used in curdling the milk they claim they can make a soft, silky grade or a hard, stronger type of yarn. Although Messrs. Gould and Whittier do not know exactly what it will cost to produce synthetic wool commercially, they are certain...
...marathon to express his opinions on some of the more irritating aspects of his existence. His likes and dislikes are typically those of city-dwellers who curse and sweat over far-rolling collar-buttons, wives who make their husbands wait, parties next door, Blue Mondays, and socks that shrink uncontrollably. His comical fumings over the enraging trivialities of everyday life inevitably reduce the reader to howls of laughter over his own experiences with identical problems...
...affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release of the pituitary substance which normally stimulates sex activity. It seemed to show that parental behavior and sex activity are antipathetic, by glandular decree...
When a child's milk tooth decays and is pulled before a permanent tooth is ready to replace it, the jaw may shrink and become malformed. As one way of combatting this common dental accident. Dentist Kenneth A. Easlick of the University of Michigan last week announced a neat trick: plugging the cavity in the tooth with a paste of paraformaldehyde. Such a chemical desensitizes and mummifies the tooth. Therefore the tooth stays in place, may be filled and helps maintain the shape of the jaw until the permanent tooth ripens and pushes out the mummified milk tooth...