Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Trend. After a party has won two Presidential elections in succession it is normal at the next election for the Outs to increase their strength in Congress. In the landslide of 1936 Democrats were elected to some 50 seats in the House from districts which might be classed as normally Republican. Therefore, if Republicans win back less than about 50 seats, the coming election will be a Democratic victory. If they win 50, more or less, the outcome will show no significant trend in national politics. If they win substantially more than 50 seats the outcome will...
Fradd scoffs at body-building correspondence courses, advertised in many magazines. "Music size does not necessarily indicate power," he said. "It is the co-ordinated whole, rather than the bulk which determine physical fitness and muscular agility." Trend of Posture Ratings Grades...
...last two years, but ten percent of the gifts Harvard has received have been unrestricted grants which the University may use as it sees fit. Moreover, the percentage of such gifts shows a declining trend. This is in spite of the fact that many of President Conant's speeches and reports have echoed eloquently the plea for fluid funds. Either because Harvard's benefactors are of an unimpressionable nature, or because they fail to read the President's speeches, the University finds itself tied and thwarted on every hand, with its efficiency gravely impaired...
...most countries extremist parties, left or right, usually show their greatest gains when times are hard. In evenminded Belgium, however, this trend is often reversed. Last week, a time of international if not national stress, the Belgian electorate voted overwhelmingly for the moderate parties in the municipal elections held every six years. Heaviest winners were the Socialist and Catholic Parties, supporters of Premier Paul Henri Spaak. Even the pro-French Liberal Party, thought to be losing its hold, showed wide gains. Heaviest losers were the Communists, Rexists and Flemish Nationalists. The pro-Fascist Rexists blamed their losses on the fact...
...Uncle Carl" Laemmle, corpses were so prevalent in Universal productions that they became practically the company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...