Word: shrinkly
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...word "drive" usually has a connotation that makes most people shrink into the smallest possible corner at its mention. But the drive for books by the American Merchant Marine Library Association is one that neither calls for disappearance nor, on being caught, the donation of "as much as you think you can afford, for this most worthy cause" The Association asks for books,--old, new, good, bad, or high-brow. Anything seems to please them so long as it has a cover and a printed interior...
...papers now raging in London. To the vulgar eye, that threadhare old scarcecrow, "British Conservatism," has pulled himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press. The struggle for supremacy has led from one exploit to another. The papers are daring each other into new ways of getting subscribers. The "Morning Post" promises eloquently to become the premier daily in Britain. The "Telegraph" has begun to deliver...
...because, although granting the importance of self-education on such topics as disarmament they consider them to be a waste of time, are sincere. Do they keep away because they are able to spend the time more profitably otherwise, or merely because they are, let us say, inclined to shrink from the prospects of intellectual efforts which these meetings require? Sincerity on this point is impossible to determine; yet it is our belief that in cases where a man has never attended any meeting of this character his sincerity is greatly to be doubted...
...overcome by finding that it isn't, but that he really is expected to know something about it. We all, I am sure, deeply sympathize with those poor mortals who find their burdens so great and their minds taxed so heavily by the requirements of certain courses that they "shrink from a continuance of such a demand upon their memories in the next-term." One naturally wants outside interests and should have them and find time for them, but the very fact that a person finds himself here at a university implies that he is supposed to learn something...
...appear practicable to go further without endangering the permanent interests of the business by giving inferior service to customers. But the reduction in attendance will certainly be much more than ten per cent. and the Co-operative Society will be very fortunate if its business does not shrink in corresponding ratio. For this reason every effort will be made to secure larger patronage from the University's population, what-ever it happens to be, and also to develop business with Harvard alumni living in Cambridge, Boston, or neighboring communities. Practically every branch of University activity faces a deficit...