Word: wane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth's series of crippling backfield injuries is now definitely on the wane with the return of Hal Fitkin at right half and Herb Carey at fullback In fact, the only spot where the Big Green is still weakened by injuries is at left half where Bill Dey, a converted fullback, is doing a creditable...
Many stars are variable. The "novae" flash into sudden brilliance and then fade back to dimness. Others wax & wane regularly every few days. In a letter to Britain's Nature magazine, D. Stanley-Jones suggests that both types of uneasy stars may be natural versions of the man-made atomic bomb...
Protestantism, says Niebuhr, began to wane after 1850. "It was the affinity between Evangelical Christianity and frontier democracy which made churches of sectarian origin, notably the Methodist and Baptist, the most powerful churches of our nation. . . . But the Evangelical antidote against secularism was not to prove permanently effective...
...time when the need for General Education seems more immediate and imperative than over before, many people feel that the Classics, rather than being on the wane, are ready for an increased recognition and a new awareness by students of the broad, universal knowledge they impart...
Back in 1934 two budding economists wondered, as others had before them, if sunspots affected agricultural production and thus food prices. When they studied sunspots they found that their wax & wane apparently bore no relation to the rise or fall of agricultural production. But they were amazed to find that sunspot activity coincided with the rise & fall of industrial production and of stockmarket prices...