Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ever since the first British adhesive stamp was issued in 1840, the likeness of the Sovereign has been a head-&-neck. Experts of the Post Office have maintained that to show the Sovereign at waist-length or full-length on anything so small as a stamp would be to shrink the royal likeness until it was virtually unrecognizable, even in the case of a Sovereign with a distinctive beard...
...look smaller when dead, but Huey Long, who developed the traditional figure of the American backwoods demagogue to its fullest stature, was not likely to shrink in the estimates of his contemporaries for some time to come. Twenty years ago but a traveling salesman, a peddler of baking powder and cotton seed oil, he married a girl who won a cake-baking contest which he staged. After seven months study of the law, he was a lawyer, wangled himself a job on Louisiana's Railway Commission, and began building up a political following. He made the Governorship...
...complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose Southwick against his influential persecutors...
...high-frequency electric current shot through the head of an epileptic differs from the same current shot through a normal head. The difference is due to the swelling of the epileptic's brain, decided Drs. Ernst Spiegel & Mono, Spiegel-Adolf (wife) of Philadelphia. They found that they could shrink such brains and decrease convulsions by feeding epileptics meats and other acid-producing foods. Alkali producing foods, they found, excite epileptics, increase their tendency to fits...
...girls, however gallant, do not ride in the Grand National at Aintree. Each of these unlikely happenings occurs in Author Bagnold's "National Velvet," but so compelling is the wave of her magic wand that the surliest realist will nod and grin approval. Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy. Humorous, charming, "National Velvet" is a little masterpiece of English sentiment. Velvet was 14, going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three...