Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being the most obvious example of another "bureau." The Business, Medical, and Law Schools, while not increasing in enrollment, are nevertheless enlarging their activities in the general direction of the public. The annual reports issued from the School of Public Health and the Law School have definitely shown this trend. This expansion has meant new and more numerous duties for the President of the University, whose obvious duty it is to supervise actively all the engagements of the "bureaus" under him. Perhaps the actual expansion of the President's office itself in recent years into a more public position...
...similar trend in France...
...responsible for some of the post-Munich anti-democratic decrees. Fascism had intervened openly in Spain, had fostered a revolt in Brazil, was covertly aiding revolutionary movements in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania. In Finland a foreign minister had to resign under Nazi pressure. Throughout eastern Europe after Munich the trend was toward less freedom, more dictatorship. In the U. S. alone did democracy feel itself strong enough at year's end to give Hitler his come-uppance...
...Weather Bureau assembled all available records covering a century or more, found that they showed a trend towards warmth. In Manhattan, white-thatched James Henry Kimball, famed weather adviser of transatlantic fliers, found that in his territory average annual temperatures rose 2.1° from 1831 to 1900, 1.4° more from 1900 to 1938. Meteorologists do not know whether the present warm trend is likely to last 20 years or 20,000 years...
...Exchange will be higher than it has been this year and that it will be above the level of 1935 and below that of 1936. . . . The year as a whole will almost surely be a better business year than this has been, but it is quite possible that the trend of affairs may be downward again before it draws toward its close...