Word: shrinkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
Managing Director Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or twelve million annual output if lisle were substituted...
...child. The poor little traveler is bewildered by the strange world in which he suddenly finds himself. . . . For absolute filth, go and listen to the talks of the boys and girls during recess in our schools. Some of these little ones belong to refined Christian families. Their parents would shrink in horror at the thought of unveiling the sacred mysteries of sex and birth to their innocent minds...
...long love dies slowly; and I would not admit, even to myself, that the "wrong" was entirely with TIME. I thought something had happened to me. It was as if a trusted yardstick appeared to shrink. So, I've checked myself by other reading. In the midst of TIME I pick up something else-anything else. A former impossibility has become a habit...
...Pacific Northwest of the Amateur Athletic Union's executive committee, is said to plan a great athletic pavilion as his monument in Portland. Mainspring in the Meier & Frank business since Uncle Julius moved to the State House in 1930, Aaron Frank has watched his store's sales shrink from $18,510,061 in the fiscal year of 1928 to $11,276,077 in 1934 and swell again to $16,555,952 in 1936. When Aaron Frank announced last January that the operating assets of the store would be transferred to a new corporation, Meier & Frank...