Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watches, Bicycles & Cloth. But there were other obstacles equally imposing. Many a British businessman, for example, has never been completely comfortable with the idea of giving up the "protection" of a controlled currency. Lancashire mill owners shrink at the thought of cheap Japanese cloth on British counters: British automakers shudder at the prospect of all those gleaming U.S. monsters invading their safe home market. Said one business man: "Things are going along fine right now, and as long as there is all this uncertainty, why rush into changed situations...
Since the electrons in Dr. Motz's undulator are moving close to the speed of light, the undulator, from their point of view, is only one-seventh as long as it is from the point of view of Dr. Motz. The waves caused by the magnetized teeth shrink in proportion. Other shrinking actions bring them down...
...infinite modesty and quietness; he likes to drive out, on afternoons when he can get free, to a "meditation house" built on stilts, a tall man's height from the ground. U Nu must now meditate upon the fate of Indo-China, and he does not shrink from its implication: "Most of the countries of Southeast Asia are like this house," U Nu tells his visitors. "As the wind blows, they go to and fro like this."UNu flaps his hands...
Asked about the public-v. private-power controversy, Vogel said: "Such a question is like asking someone if he likes apples or pears, cats or dogs, horses or mules." In picking Vogel, Ike hired a caretaker, not a redecorator. TVA will not shrink or grow. It will be operated...
...president of the Philadelphia Bulletin and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, stepped up before 1,000 newspaper production men and said sternly: "The day of easy money [for newspapers] is gone . . . Some newspapers have shrunk, and more have died than we like to talk about. More will shrink and die if we do not meet our present-day problems." Publisher Slocum was gloomy about the newspaper business with reason. All over the U.S., rising costs have squeezed profit margins of newspaper publishers to the lowest point in years...