Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning undergraduates and wandering alumni will face a shrunken stadium this fall when they view the football players in action for the first time. Approximately 20,000 seats have disappeared with the passing of the steel stands over the summer, and the structure has now returned to its original and classic horseshoe shape. Now the capacity of the oldest college stadium in America is 37,114, compared to last year's 56,495 seats...
...balance of payment deficit must be stopped, and stopped permanently, and though it may sound hardhearted, that's something those countries have to work out for themselves." Canada, he added, expects countries like India and Pakistan to have deficits ("You can't tighten a belt over a shrunken belly"). But Australia, for example, has made mistakes ("They tried to expand too fast and lived beyond their means"). His advice for Australia, and also for Britain: "They can reduce the demand on their resources or they can increase their output . . . produce more or use less at home . . . find more...
Miss X, a shrunken little woman (five feet, 105 Ibs.) of 83, was an overconscientious child in a typical Kansas small town when Chester Alan Arthur was President of the U.S. Yellowed, longhand records dating from her admission in 1882 report: "Shows loss of memory . . . Derangement now manifested began on religious subjects . . . She literally believed the Sunday-school lessons. Cause of insanity: 'Sincerity and love of truth, and finding that nearly everything...
...shrunken heads collected by the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador are merely trophies which prove that an injury has been avenged...
...shrunken hard and dry, . And every spirit upon earth