Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Tribune lives and grows because it is first of all a newspaper. It spares no expense, no effort, to gather the news of every significant development and trend at home and abroad. And it prints it, completely and without compromise, in the public interest...
...county elections outside London, there was also a trend against Labor. So far, in these elections, the Tories had gained 360 seats and lost 19; Labor had gained 69 and lost 362. This did not necessarily mean that Labor was certain to be licked in 1950. It did mean that Labor would no longer find it easy to sell Britons Sir Stafford Cripps's austerity program (see below) as the only true high road to a new land of pie-in-the-sky. In Berlin, where the news reached him, Herbert Morrison put it mildly: "The situation is difficult...
...Greatest Story Ever Told (Fulton Oursler's rewrite of the New Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...member of the all-powerful Politburo. It was possible that he had been moved up, either to an inner advisory group on the Politburo, or to the Central Committee's Military Department, the Communist Party's hidden organ which controls the Ministry of Armed Forces. One trend was clear: all but one (Minister of Light Industry A. N. Kosygin) of the Politburo's 13 members have been relieved of routine administrative duties. Perhaps they needed to be free to think, and think hard, in view of crucial policy decisions ahead...
Apparently the voices of the coeducators have not been crying in vain these two years. If the other groups in the College which are still solely male follow this trend, joint education can be made much more than the academic shell which...