Word: waned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny fellows think the "Lampoon" on wane. Hope your physique varies inversely with your recent literary effort. 1890 football revival under way. We need setup game to start with. You have been selected for that coveted position. Congratulations. Time 10 P.M., Nov. 25. You name place. Yale "Record...
...also serve who only stand and wane. Your hilarious telegram is a fine specimen of "Record" wit. We adults feel that football is a product of the newer decadence. However we will play you in the Harvard Stadium at 2 P.M., on Saturday. "Lampoon." --The Yale News...
...thus make the spot look comparatively dark. Though no explanation of the cause of the disturbances has been confidently advanced, the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is possibly involved. Visible spots range in size from a few hundred to 50,000 mi. across. They wax & wane in cycles which average 11.2 years, although the last two cycles covered hardly more than ten years each. As a cycle progresses the sunspot zones migrate from 30° north and south latitude to 16° in mid-cycle; the last survivors hug the equator. What interests laymen most about...
...greatly to the credit of the Government of roly poly Manuel Ozana, just restored to power on the issue of Spain's new church laws, for anti-church sentiment to be as marked as possible. After noon when the enthusiasm of the young cutups began to wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King...
...Jews had been killed. Physical violence was on the wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth...