Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
Three years after her marriage trouble came. Her father's estate had shrunk to some $50,000,000 and a suit was started for a review of its administration. Some 45 heirs filed cross suits. The case was in the courts for eleven years. Her brother, George J. Gould, whom the others accused of malfeasance, was finally removed as a trustee. In the end, although no wrong-doing was found against her, the trustees settled the case for $20,000,000. On the stand she testified: "I do not know how much money I gave away, but I think...
...habitually dined on bread and potatoes, for they were cheap and filling. But not all human machines can burn such excessive quantities of starchy fuel as Elka Abrams stowed away and by the time she was 55 Mrs. Abrams was a victim of advanced diabetes. Fortnight ago, having shrunk to half her former size, she slipped into a diabetic coma, was bundled out of her house by police and rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in a patrol wagon...
...Portugal's once potent empire, now shrunk to sixth largest in the world, Angola has long been the Cinderella colony. What little Portuguese and private funds were available went to develop Mozambique, on the other side of Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets...
Neutral observers in Mexico City judged that President Cardenas and his associates have only just realized what economists have known for months: that his agrarian decrees of the past year have had many disastrous results. Total production of such Mexican staple crops as wheat, corn and cocoa has shrunk sharply partly due to drought, partly to inefficient working of lands divided and parceled out among the peons...