Word: waning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 750 miles southeast from Peking in the Province of Kiangsu. At Shanghai, the greatest treaty port of China, where the trouble began, the situation was well in control and the city was said to resemble "an armed camp." The strike, declared after the shooting of Chinese, began to wane, but shipping remained completely tied up throughout the week. Chang Hsuehliang, son of Tuchun Chang Tso-lin ("strongest man in China"), arrived with 2,000 cadets to maintain order. Despite precautions, the British Consul was beaten. A British and Japanese boycott was declared but had little effect...
Finally an intercollegiate lacrosse association was formed of New York University, Princeton, Columbia, Yale and the University. The Crimson won the championship the first year. However, the interest in the game gradually began to wane and teams started withdrawing from the association. They were immediately replaced by teams representing Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, and Stevens until about 1905, when an entirely new league was formed with Columbia, Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Stevens, Swarthmore, Cornell and the University. Since then interest in lacrosse has increased by leaps and bounds. Today there are approximately 40 universities and colleges playing it in the East...
Evidently, Bolshevism has reached its apogee, has begun to wane. Diplomatic circles heralded the change as a virtual liquidation of the Internationale and the ushering in of a new era, shortly to be announced by Trotzky, which is, once for all, to recognize the rights of private property and the sanctity of inter national debts. But the future alone will decide whether they are right...
...passing of Professor Baker and Dean Briggs has brought about a feeling among some that Harvard's English Department was on the wane. Such men as Professors Kittredge. Lowes, and Perry, to mention only a very few must have been overlooked in the lamentation over the crackling and crumbling of Harvard's great reputation. Those loubters can scarcely fail to realize that with the conling, of Professor Tatlock their criticism will lose its force: and those who have believed consistently in the department will feel with pleasure that it is to be even greater than before...
...remaking the railways; Senator Johnson was for remaking foreign policy on strictly isolationist lines. Mr. McAdoo's effort grew, although politicians shook their heads and muttered : "He will never be able to win the necessary two-thirds of a Democratic convention." Senator Johnson's candidacy was on the wane from the first; since he belonged to the same Party as Mr. Coolidge, the President's accretion was his diminution. And the President's following increased...