Word: shrunk
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Shirts which are shrunk at the factory and therefore hold their own in the laundry are deemed by many a grateful tender-neck to be marvels of modern science...
...Shrunk glass is made by mixing two borosilicate formulas, one of which is soluble in acid, the other not. The mixture is melted and the glass is molded or blown to the desired shape. Then it is soaked in dilute nitric acid, which eats away the soluble ingredients, leaving the glass honeycombed with air spaces. Again heat is applied and the glass becomes solid, shrinking 35% in volume...
...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...