Word: shrinkly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Asked about the public-v. private-power controversy, Vogel said: "Such a question is like asking someone if he likes apples or pears, cats or dogs, horses or mules." In picking Vogel, Ike hired a caretaker, not a redecorator. TVA will not shrink or grow. It will be operated...
...president of the Philadelphia Bulletin and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, stepped up before 1,000 newspaper production men and said sternly: "The day of easy money [for newspapers] is gone . . . Some newspapers have shrunk, and more have died than we like to talk about. More will shrink and die if we do not meet our present-day problems." Publisher Slocum was gloomy about the newspaper business with reason. All over the U.S., rising costs have squeezed profit margins of newspaper publishers to the lowest point in years...
...Brown of Georgia who said in 1884 that woman suffrage "would be a great cruelty to a much larger number of the cultivated, refined, delicate and lovely women of this country who seek no such distinction, who would enjoy no such privilege, who would with woman-like delicacy shrink from the discharge of any such obligation, and who would sincerely regret that what they consider the folly of the State had imposed upon them any such unpleasant duties...
...thoroughly convinced that football was not what it used to be. He scoffed at modern football as a sissy game played by "pawers and taggers" instead of blockers and tacklers. Unlike most old diehards, "Pudge" could prove his point, and he did, at an age when most men shrink from strong exercise. In 1916, when he was 48, Pudge went back to Yale to help toughen up a later generation for the big games with Princeton and Harvard. In three scrimmage plays he laid out five varsity linemen, sent one to the hospital with three broken ribs...
...Shrink Harvard down to one eleventh its size and you will have Winthrop House: the statistical and spiritual average of the college...