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Harvard's cases of ventral inconvenience seem to be well on the wane, with only 11 men reporting all week-end. The investigation of the foods has as yet been unsuccessful, and no one food is to blame...
...fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue by a mad flight in the teeth of a Labrador blizzard. By this time, however, Miss Campion's invulnerability to Dinsmore's attacks is perceptibly on the wane and when the escape ends in a circuitous return to the radio hut she is easily persuaded that it's a bit extreme to marry Sir James merely because he happened to be around when she chose to do a bit of drowning in Naples. Things are temporarily complicated...
...property during their lifetime. All were once wealthy and politically powerful, drawing revenue throughout the Balkans and from Russia which furnished many a neophyte monk. Still autonomous under the Greek Republic, the monasteries own and run the whole mount. But their influence, thinks Author Choukas, is on the wane and their eventual disappearance as religious centres likely. Chief reason: Mount Athos no longer attracts young men to replace old ones...
...York, Nov. 13--United States Davis Cup hopes for 1935, already on the wane, reached new depths of gloom tonight with the signing of Lester Stoefen for professional tennis...
...among people who had lost their shirts but did not want their neighbors to know it. Auburn became a Depression sensation, making 34,000 cars and $15 ger share of common stock in 1931. Next year it was less smart to be flashy, and Auburn sales began to wane. In 1934's first half, Auburn delivered 4,600 cars. It lost $1,600,000 in the six months ending May 31 and passed its dividend for the first time in nine years. Last week Auburn stock was selling at $25 per share against a 1929 high of $514. It looked...