Word: shrinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attract attention to himself. But the stars of the Burns & Allen show are Burns & Allen. Advertisements that printed ambitious Bill Goodwin's name in type as big as the stars' rocked George Burns back on his heels. Presently Goodwin's publicity and his lines began to shrink...
Many consumer-goods industries also saw profits shrink from last year. Textile-company earnings were down 12%; food companies, unable to outfoot rising costs, were down 5%. General Foods reported a slightly lower net on record sales of $209 million. Their $28 million increase in sales was just matched by a $28 million increase in the cost of sales...
Pedal Extremity. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Very Perry won a divorce on the ground that her husband, Joaquin, to keep her from running around at night, soaked her shoes in water, put them in the oven to bake and shrink...
...Wool that does not shrink...
...make snagged threads cling to their neighbors instead of unraveling. The same chemical is used to put a lusterless coating (which must be renewed from time to time) on blue serge and to impregnate wool so that it achieves a durable crease when pressed under heat. To make wool shrink-proof, Powers first wets it to open the fibers, then injects a resin inside the hollowed fibers. This stiffens the tiny, fuzzy barbs that stick out of the side of a woolen fiber and prevents the barbs from interlocking - the cause of shrinkage...