Word: shrinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written was in keeping with the general's style and past performance: "In this hour of momentous import, national and international, temporal and spiritual ... I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...
...once. If he started on the tip of the nose, the rest of the face would lose shape and perspective. "The distance between one side of the nose and the other," he wrote, "is like the Sahara." Later, in an effort to grasp the whole, his sculptures began to shrink until they became so small that they would fall apart at the touch of his knife. Finally, his figures began to seem real to him only when they were long and slender. "And it is almost there," says Giacometti, "where I am today...
Only once did Bill Barclay's men show why they are rated so highly in the East this year. Midway through the first half, they began playing basketball. Hauptfuhrer and Rockwell combined to shrink a 17 to 10 Terrier lead and give Harvard a 19 to 17 bulge. Minutes later, the Varsity held a 23 to 19 margin. This was the Crimson high-water mark...
Whether is not this condition is temporary depends on many factors. Next year, enrollment will commence the long shrink back to normal and the full-scale summer term will be discontinued. A great drop in student income will result, both in tuition and in room and board. If this decrease should be accompanied by a continued rise in prices, the College will have to move swiftly to meet expenses...
Whether the trend toward monopoly had been checked for long was open to question. The department merely noted that smaller companies usually grow faster during booms-and would shrink faster if a recession or depression comes along...