Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended. To Congressmen who'll draw our salary, We leave all gunmen in the gallery, All Communists who march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying, A tax the public won't mind paying. To make this simple as can be, We leave to them technocracy. To them...
...Professors," declared Businessman Prince, "are one of the chief curses of the country. They talk too much. Most professors are a bunch of cowards and meddlers. Men do not shrink from life unless there is some cowardice about them. Professors do not hesitate to accept the endowments of those who have served the people and the nation in commerce and industry, but do nothing themselves but talk. You have only to think back over the last ten years to realize the difficulties we have been drawn into through professors. The sooner we get away from their influence the better...
...standard work week and work day. . . . We are prepared to support the plan either through legislative enactment or exercise of our economic force in compelling employes to accept it-by calling strikes and thus withholding the service of the employes until industry establishes the shorter week. I shrink to think it necessary to take such steps but industrial leaders refuse to take action...
...merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity in him he cannot give all a curt refusal, and if he be a worldly passerby he will shrink from trusting them with nothing more than the address of an already harassed and bankrupt charity. The obligation exacted by hungry eyes and haggard faces is more immediate than that...
...strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...