Word: waning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rolls of 216 representative colleges, reported that there was only a 2% student increase over the previous year. In 101 of the institutions having fewer than 500 students there had been a distinct decline. In the larger colleges (those of 3,000 and more), he found a less appreciable wane but in 22 scattered States fewer students were at college in 1928 than...
Past 50, Madame Londe's good looks were on the wane. In public a studied smile corrected the arrogant sag of her mouth and she gave change like charity. Madame Londe supplied needs other than gastronomic ones. For her customers she was breaking in Fernande, 13, who sniggered when tickled. Angèle, older, reliable, was more popular. Only Angèle could answer inquisitive Madame Londe's "whys" about the customers. Somehow Madame Londe did not set Angèle to probe this reticent stranger Guèret. Yet it was Angèle who attracted Guèret nightly to the restaurant's neighborhood...
September began to wane and the friends and enemies of The Happy Warrior* agreed that, so far, he had not got off the defensive...
...this month quotes him who said that "within thirty years there would exist no Harvard publication run by undergraduates". This conclusion proceeds from evidence that is lively and undeniable from the point of view of fact; the belief that outside activities, athletic and non-athletic, are on the wane at Harvard...
Very typical are these lines. Miss Bell was loyal to a fault toward those she trusted, womanly, and at times highly emotional. She came upon the scene in Irak after the tumult and the shooting had begun to wane; but the present prevailing peace in King Faisal's realm is very largely founded on her broad conciliatory liaison work. Dozens of the letters are pure feminine chatter, but it is never idle chatter...