Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world is in a soberer mod than in the Harding-Coolidge days," Dean Bender said, explaining the trend. He added that students now in College are a "more serious and hard working group than my contemporaries...
...growls could be plainly heard, the bond market was turning perversely bullish. Ordinarily, rising bond prices have preceded bull markets (as bond prices go up and their interest yield declines, common stocks grow more attractive). Last week, with stocks falling, long-term Treasury bonds, which set the bond market trend, rose above their Federal Reserve support-price for the first time since July...
...voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based on the vote of Hart's Location, N.H., which gave Dewey 11, Truman...
Explained the Journal's editor, Dr. Morris Fishbein, a nonsmoker: "We have noticed an increasing trend to make health claims in cigarette ads, and we think this practice is unfair and unwise. The A.M.A. believes in self-regulation by industry, if possible. By printing this editorial, the A.M.A. is making an attempt to encourage industry to look into this situation itself...
Then, with ten minutes gone in the first period, the Varsity caught fire. Every time it got the ball it made a sustained march. The trend started in the first half; in the second half it was more than a trend; Brown no longer had a chance...