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...week's end some of George's strength began to wane. Leaders of the A.F.L. trolley union, who had respected his picket lines for 18 days, sent their men back to the streetcars and buses. The coal truckers said to hell with George-and 384 of the Triangle's buildings got a full head of steam again...
Meeetings at Winthrop, Adams, and Dudley are scheduled for early next week. Provided that the recently generated enthusiasm does not wane, a committee with college-wide support should be set up by the end of the week. With new and numerous problems to be faced by an over-congested College next fall, a popularly elected, popularly supported Student Council should be created which will have the energy and authority to carry through programs of interest and benefit to the entire student body...
...announced with a proud disregard for facts and figures that 'if we all put our shoulders to the wheel we could see this country through without the Goddam loan from America.' I try to explain why I think the brave, prosperous British Empire era is on the wane, and badly needs the loan. He will have none of this, stoutly believes we will win through despite this Goddam Labor Government...
...Sobriety. About 1800 the carnival spirit dwindled sharply, and the age of scientific sobriety began. An extension of the enema principle came in 1895 with the invention of colonic irrigation by Professor Ismar of Berlin-a controversial treatment which Historian Lieberman dismisses as very rarely necessary and "on the wane at the present time...
...took up with the shapely, silk-skinned movie standin, Toshiko, and made her his mistress. Nizaemon's adoring public could bear up under that. But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane. Only his relatives and most ardent disciples, paying their ritual calls on the 1st and 15th of each month, remained faithful...