Alison estimates the shrinkage of property in Great Britain alone as at least £100,000,000.

Is it by way of punishment that Turkey is to undergo such shrinkage, or is it because justice demands it?

Here, then, we find the shrinkage of the rays tending to shorten a stick of wood, while the other cells resist it, and the tendency of a stick to get smaller in circumference is resisted by the endwise reaction or thrust of the rays.

The more rapid drying of the ends causes local shrinkage, and were the material sufficiently plastic the ends would become bluntly tapering.

Throughout the corn-producing district there has been proceeding a gradual shrinkage, as it were, of speculative investment.

A great believer in the Potomac Canal Company, Washington invested twenty-four hundred pounds sterling in the stock, which produced no income, and in time showed a heavy shrinkage.

A compulsory eight hours day would practically mean a shrinkage in the supply of labour offered in the market, and the first effect would indisputably be a rise in the price of labour.

They will be taken from adjoining pieces chosen so that the results will be comparable for use in determining radial and tangential shrinkage.