Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belief that extra effort by the workers is helping to add to private profits as well as to the strength of our war machine. . . . Concern about the future is being given too prominent a place in the plans and activities of too many industrial concerns. . . . Even ministers shrink from upsetting normal trade practice. . . . Men of vision cannot fail to see that humanity is passing at this moment through the fire of social revolution as well as of universal...
...great advantage of brass casings is that, at detonation, they quickly heat up, expand, seal the gun breech; then they quickly cool, shrink, can easily be ejected. Steel has a slower heat conductivity, a lesser coefficient of expansion, which can probably be somewhat overcome by crafty alloying...
...every month our navy is becoming stronger, as is Singapore. Our recent refusal to lift the embargo means that Japan's aftempts to bluff us into deserting China have failed. The longer Japan waits, the stronger will China become and the more will Japanese surpluses of important raw materials shrink--resources like iron, petroleum, copper, and alumninum, for which she depended almost entirely on America...
When the new tax rates were announced (TIME, April 14) telephone operators and chauffeurs took comfort in the knowledge that a tycoon's income of $274,000 would shrink to $20,000. Until last week they had not realized that a married man earning $18 a week would pay $1.40 weekly tax, that an office boy earning $10 a week would have to fork over...
...gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...