Word: shrivelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruled that because of the "close personal contact between the teacher and the taught," the school's "money income must be ascribed to the activities of the Misses Howland and Brownell, its sole stockholders, for without these two women's daily, personal work, the school would simply shrivel...
...despair ingly watched their acres brown under a relentless sun. Even the potent Federal Farm Board was not potent enough to bring the relief that only long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...
Slowly the invisible cloud took on impalpable bulk and was wafted by a light breeze across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however...
Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Archbishop of Malines, was one of those rare men who in youth so thoroughly foresee their life work that the desiccating years cannot warp the fulness of their ideals, can scarcely shrivel even their bodies. Yet his disease did waste him to scarcely 100 pounds...
Most of the men who, during the War, were sent to jail for the irregularity of their social ideas, have eventually been let off lightly. The severity of the two Honolulu sentences will come under five reviews; it is predicted that both sentences will shrivel either in the reviews or at the White House...