Word: fad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smooth numbers show no spurts of popularity with numbers as old as "Stardust" consistently being purchased today. Hot jazz tends to be less definite with tunes changing position almost every day as a fad as boogey-woogey or songs like "He's My Uncle" grasp undergraduate imaginations...
...modern tubular furniture was born. Its birthplace was the Bauhaus, famed German school of architecture and design which Nazis later turned into a domestic science school for girls. It had a bony infancy. Fad-hungry interior decorators pounced on its chromium steel chairs and glass-topped tables. But many a buyer found it short on fun, however long on function. Trouble was-and still is-that metal furniture was cold in surface and line, clammy or hot according to the weather...
...sense to this jitterbug fad, but I like good swing music even after listening to it steadily for such a long time. Of all the bands I have heard, I would place Bob Chester at the top of the list...
...yeast fad could not last forever. Many a yeast-eater turned to vitamin pills, easier to take and just as reassuring. Many another just quit. And Standard Brands' profits began to depend more and more on coffee, tea, gelatin, other items in its varied line, all with narrower profit margins than yeast...
...wholesaler of ideas, Frank is also largely responsible for the semantics fad. But no theory, no dogma, sticks to Jerome Frank very long. A connoisseur of them, his only principle is not to become enslaved to any set of principles, to trust no rules beyond his own democratic instincts and pragmatic sense...