Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began to get things done...
...already killed von Papen's speech out of second editions of German papers which had managed to rush it into their first, and Roarer Göing had as much as seconded von Papen in a speech admitting that enthusiasm for Naziism was some what on the wane. Amid this Cabinet broil Herr Hitler showed himself the Little Man. He begged everyone please to be friends and patched up a tea party in the Ministry of Propaganda at which Dr. Goebbels and Lieut.-Colonel von Papen sipped at each other with wolfish smiles while the world in general...