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...vacation (TIME, Dec. 16),* Chicago announced itself to be convalescent from the civic disease that had made it the most notably criminal city in the U. S. Even Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson stopped shouting about Chicago's virtues to announce that its vices were on the wane. Chief of Police Michael Hughes gave out figures to the effect that Chicago was 66% less criminal in 1927 than formerly...
...Boxing is a lost art, in fact, the whole world seems to me to be on the wane," James J. Corbett said late last night in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before going out for his comedy act "Gentleman Jim." "In spite of his pessimistic statement he seemed anything but depressed as he straightened his bright green tie and doned his white flannels. When his interviewer showed his ignorance of boxing in the '80's and '90's, Mr. Corbett reviewed his rise in the fistic world...
...These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused the party in power to wane. Several economists have recognized the correlation between rainfall and economic cycles. It is just one step further to carry the economic results to their political conclusion...
...apoplexy with sound alone. He says: "I have tried [in the "Ballet Mécanique"] to express America's tremendous power and energy without writing it in terms of jazz." Composer Antheil, first to propagate a serious appreciation of jazz in Germany, believes it is now on the wane, in form, not in spirit. Yet his favorite composers are Beethoven and Handel...
After weaning the mother will find that her milk production powers wane until they stop. Secretion of milk depends on the drainage the suckling child sets up, and continues until that suckling ceases...