Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suggestions: 1) That you restrict the questions to 20; that the spacing be shrunk to permit an adequate box at the end of the column; that you therein insert something similar to the following: "Do you also carefully read TIME'S advertising? For instance, where did 104,000 buyers spend $137,000,000 in 1933? (pp. 8-9)." 2) That you charge advertisers for the additional squib, allowing it to one or rotating it among all. Or, if used without charge, it will substantiate your claims of "TIME-the different magazine" in dealing with prospective advertisers. 3) That...
...once thrived and multiplied they were now dying by thousands. Causes: 1) farming; 2) drought. Farmers have drained and ploughed under or turned into grazing larid 80% of the small bodies of water which once dotted the land. Half the rest have dried up. Many a large lake has shrunk or vanished completely. With the water have gone the plants which ducks once used for food or cover...
...such advance talk, New Yorkers jammed a theatre to overflowing this week for the U. S. debut of Serge Lifar. But when the evening was over consensus was that Lifar's "mantle" was threadbare and worn beyond recognition. If it had ever been Nijinsky's it had shrunk to a loincloth. Like Nijinsky, everyone wanted to know if Lifar could jump. He could and it was a pretty jump, but not impressively long or high. He could do smooth, floating arabesques. He leaped once into the air. did a picturesque wriggle and landed gracefully curled...
Left. By David Belasco, theatrical producer (TIME, May 25, 1931): $1,249,144 (shrunk to $621,162 last June); mostly to his Daughter Reina, wife of Producer Morris Gest...
...that neither should we permit it to become a football for politicians. . . . We [Brooklyn Trust Co.] made an analysis of all applications for business loans ranging from $2,000 upwards received during the first eight months of this year. . . . We found that the demand for business credit had shrunk 50% from the corresponding period in the preceding year-which was itself a slack period. We also found that we had granted 81% of all the business credit applied for. ... I want to suggest that other bankers analyze all of their policies ... be prepared to answer critics with facts. . . . 'That...