Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted, when Generalissimo Franco's German-planned counterattack on Madrid failed month ago (TIME, Aug. 16), Italian staff officers were given their innings, permitted an attempt to re-establish Italian military prestige with a mass attack on the onetime summer resort of Santander. key point of the shrunken and crumbling Basque front. As predicted, the Rightist columns found ineffective resistance among the 25,000 Basques and Asturian miners defending Santander and last week Santander fell. As predicted, Italy threw aside the last vestige of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. The three Italian divisions-Black Arrow, Black Flame, 20th...
High in the backwoods 14 miles from the Tennessee River opposite Guntersville, Ala. lived 75-year-old Grandma Georgia LeMaster, a shrunken little woman writh a thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...
...Deal but the U. S. Treasury was the sufferer. Lawyers foresaw that the revenue from processing taxes, shrunken to a rivulet since legal battles began, would now dry up completely, stay dry until and unless processing taxes are found legal...
...Shrunken old Greek President Alexander Zaimis remained mum as the Sphinx all week while his resignation was rumored hourly and Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...
...Hoover, Mr. Smith and New York Life's President Buckner lined up behind President Buckner's desk for three-cornered handshaking photographs. There was a moment's hush, broken when Mr. Hoover leaned over to President Buckner, volunteered in a sepulchral whisper: "I have shrunken an inch...