Word: shrinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of the next college term." But the results of the shouting and confusion are all too likely to be that the University's well-considered plans for formalizing relations between Harvard and Radcliffe will be defeated by the protests of back-to-the-kitchen traditionalists, that the University shrink from considering for the future what the Globe has announced as a fait accompli at the present time...
...view of the absolute necessity of at least continuing, and if possible increasing the production of war materials ... it is apparent that it will be too dangerous to withdraw from war production many more men for service in the armed forces. . . . We should shrink from the adoption of any program which endangers in the slightest way the production of all of the things that our armed forces and our allies need...
...nature lay for me a bed On grassy meadow, field or stone; Let me hold up an unbowed head, Outranking those who shrink and moan...
Japanese "entry" into Manchuria. Manchuria, he argued, was populated by "only 30 million people," and was rich and fertile. It seemed to provide every reason for not invading China. For it was over China that even Mr. Moore's extensive approval began to shrink. It was then he found himself unable to support "an army domination which not only assassinated its own chiefs of state, but also provoked wanton wars at will...
...been tried by war and found wanting. Jesse Jones had lost much of his power, more of his prestige. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins had virtually no job left. Good, grey Cordell Hull, who returned to his desk this week after a long rest in Florida, had seen the world shrink smaller and smaller...