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...meat in 51 -gallon barrels, shipped most of it to Holland and Scandinavia. Hooves, ears, tails were sold for glue and oil; ground bones and scraps for chickenfeed ; hides for baseballs and shoes ; blood for fertilizer; casings for German sausage. Then the day of the wild horse began to wane, and the Schlessers turned to packing beef...
journalism are the Sauk Centre Heralds, Archbold Buckeyes, and Oologah Oozings that deliver homey news to 17,000,000 small-town and rural Americans. In the U. S. newspaper business, country weeklies of their kind are a big bright spot. While the urban dailies wane, the rural weeklies wax. Since 1929 they have gained in numbers,* circulation and advertising lineage, while the daily group has fallen...
...better fall sport has over been desire than foot-ball, and its abandonment by the college cannot fall to be taken as an indication of the wane of that spirit of pluck and hardihood which has characterized the Harvard Undergraduate of the past...
...Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin Roosevelt's personal appeal, but his methods and policies. His obvious job was to persuade the nation to look upon his works as statesmanlike achievements...
...whirlpools of cooling, erupting gas on the sun, called sunspots, wax and wane in cycles of about eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. In 1933 sunspot activity suddenly turned upward after languishing near the bottom of a cycle (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Since then sunspots have made much news, growing bigger and more frequent, disrupting transatlantic wireless communication and fostering brilliant displays of the aurora borealis. Astronomers looked forward to a peak of activity...