Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase in total enrollment due largely to the fact that the number of newly admitted freshmen did not shrink as greatly as was expected between the time of admission in July and the opening of college in September...
...with all her colonies are taken into account. Professor Andrews studies the colonies that remained loyal as well as those that rebelled, with Bermuda, Newfoundland, the Barbadoes receiving almost as much attention as the ones that eventually became the original 13 States. If some U. S. heroes seem to shrink in stature as a result, and some familiar English enemies to disappear entirely, the net gain is a dense, panoramic picture of a century of struggle, revealing how confused the Founding Fathers were in their aims and intentions, how superficial and misleading most accounts of their lives and heritage...
...head would shrink to the size of my fist," whispered one. "Horns would appear on her head, and she would walk on all fours like an animal...
...that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with him to measure trees, always trying to find the biggest in New England. He said that some of those trees that looked as self-important as politicians began to shrink down and look small when they saw him coming with his tape measure. He loved horse racing and argued with Emerson about the fastest time on U. S. tracks. A good, long-winded, lovable man, he started New England discussing problems that were important to it but which were seldom...
...England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...