Word: shrinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this record Scripps-Howard's astute Columnist Raymond Clapper found little to praise. "So far as the British are concerned," said he, "ours still is a popgun arsenal." Of the President's report, Clapper wrote: "The figures ... are large. In terms of deliveries they shrink like a pair of wool socks in the laundry. . . . For a time, 25% of the eggs we sent arrived in England unfit to eat. . . . Children are not receiving the milk their bodies need. . . . Shipments to the British Empire in July of last year were . . . more than those of July this year...
Already it has a conspicuous subtitle, Beauty & Health. Odds are the old title will shrink and the subtitle grow to take its place...
...cent drop in last year's enrollment and place the total around the 7,000 mark. The Law School, which registered last Monday, is expected to suffer the greatest loss of any branch of the University--with last year's figure of 1,248 predicted to shrink...
...from international law, appeals to reason. To this natural policy Welles has made a more practical addition: a search for friends. He is obsessed with the gigantic destiny of this Hemisphere; is sure in his soul that in this time of crisis, in a terrible century, when the seas shrink and the Hemisphere grows, the U.S. must find its own vast place in world affairs. Thus he has worked with furious suavity to grapple the 20 Latin American nations to the U.S. with hooks of steel, loops of gold, the ever more important interchange of ideas and responsibilities...
...subjected. To fail to inform the people, waiting for them to lead him, is not democracy but demagogy. To act as if the people had to be manipulated is to deny the very virtues on which rests the hope of democracy; it is to think that free men will shrink from the truth and flinch in their duty...