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...will be the first really bright comet since 1910 (Halley's, not due to be seen again by earthlings until about 1984), but astronomers hate to make predictions about comets. Far from behaving like respectable members of the solar system, they are skittish and unpredictable. They wax and wane capriciously. Some of them grow magnificent tails; others...
After the original policy was rejected, Baker's influence began to wane. For years Baker had striven for the construction of a theater in which to house the productions of his Workshop and the HDC, but in vain. Plans had been drawn up in 1914 for a theater of advanced design, but this, despite the Harvard Alumni Bulletin's warning that "the need is pressing; the opportunity is unique," never amounted to anything. In 1924, Yale offered Baker the theater he wanted and the opportunity to teach nothing but playwriting--which he could not do at Harvard--and in that...
...football season's on the wane, December doth approach, The frost is on the pumpkin And the blast is on the coach...
...European series. His main office chores: answering the weekly mail, which ranges from 2,000 to 7,000 letters, autographing his Memoirs, and-increasingly with the convention drawing closer-greeting Democratic visitors who troop in to see him-some old friends, some on the make, some on the wane...
...splurged wildly, bought up collections of armor and costumes that he could use as painting props, moved into a palatial house on the edge of Amsterdam's Jewish Quarter. His drawings and etchings spread his fame the breadth of Europe. But his years of commercial success began to wane when his masterpiece, Captain Banning Cocq's Shooting Company (known as The Night Watch before its recent cleaning revealed a late-afternoon scene), met with disapproval from patrons who found themselves lost in the parade...