Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most moral or circumspect area of the world: the divorce rate was still staggeringly high, marijuana-smoking was enjoying a minor and furtive popularity, and shiny new automobiles crashed at high speeds with noisy regularity. But nobody seized upon this as evidence that man was finding new freedoms. The trend in manners & morals was in the other direction. The U.S. people seemed to be looking for values they had dropped in their long and precipitous scramble toward larger horizons...
Descriptions of six weeks of secretarial School and Experiments in International Living will appear in the report, which will be studied to determine how summer work opportunities differ with economic change, and to discover any particular trend since the war. The questionnaires will then be filed with the appointment bureau...
...surprise of this year's fair was the large increase in quantity and quality of the paintings exhibited. Perhaps this is a symbol of a national amateur trend. TIME'S Art Editor is inclined to think that it is, but the facts and figures to substantiate it are not yet available. At any rate, for the first time many newcomers exhibited their work in water color, tempera, oil, charcoal, and even pencil...
Saturday's Stadium acrobatics caught several score Boston and New York sportswriters just far enough off guard to cause a slow of ecstatic, heedless, devil may care stories in yesterday's papers. Alison Danzig of the New York Times typified the trend...
American policy in France is serving to check the De Gaulle trend, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. declared yesterday on his return from a 10-week European assignment with United States Roving Ambassador Averill Harriman...