Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany raised enough food to feed her population of 40,997,000. But the years between the Franco-Prussian and the World Wars saw a three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
...largest in peacetime history) but, staggered over three or four years, this comes out as only $18-23,000,000 a year, not nearly enough to support the company's overall production much above the rate for the steel industry as a whole, or to reverse the trend that is now carrying it down...
There is no doubt that the plan was a sincere expression of a strong trend the tying together of the studies of business and the law. It is not unusual to find professors from both Schools collaborating on new treatises, and working together in their courses as well. Harvard's two Graduate Schools on opposite sides of the Charles are joining hands more closely today than ever before. But this double training is not for every law student, because many of them will have little to do with actual business administration. However, for the few it is essential, as shown...
...somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will not be published for four more years, but the end of their first year deserves notice, not only for the work which the members of the staff have done, but also for the important trend of which it is representative...
...family physician carry in his little black bag all the equipment needed to restore his sick neighbor to health. He must, in many cases, rely for assistance on trained specialists, familiar with the latest advances in technical research. As a corollary to this increased specialization in medical science, the trend towards group practice, first introduced some twenty-five years ago by the Mayo brothers, tends to be increasingly pronounced...