Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the registrar's office noted what it hoped was not the beginning of a trend: a coed wanted her degree postponed until next winter, so her diploma would be signed by President Eisenhower...
...current trend continues," Reynolds declared, some form of boost in board rates will become necessary. As an example of the conditions which led to his prediction, Reynolds pointed to the current strike of moat-packing workers, which he thought might end in a rise in meat prices following a possible wage increase for the striking workers...
There's also a trend developing in the field of arts that is shown graphically by the fact that a recent high of 2430 undergraduates are now taking courses in the Classics, Fine Arts, Philosophy, and Music. Romance languages, mostly because of distribution requirements, attract 1375 hopeful linguists...
...experiment in shooting chunks of Berlin Express abroad was part of the new trend. In addition to such Continental productions,** Hollywood expects to make about twelve A pictures in Britain, several in Mexico (where The Fugitive, The Pearl and Treasure of Sierra Madre were shot last year), and more pictures than ever before "on location" all over...
Election returns were coming in. Roberts spotted the trend in a precinct report from the onetime "Bloody First" Ward, a Pendergast stronghold. "That's a barbershop on North Main," he said. "They used to vote about 385 to 6 for the machine. Look what they got - only two to one." It was soon clear that the election was in the bag for the Citizens Association, a loose fusion of anti-Pendergast Democrats, yeasty Republicans and independents, held together by the Star's backing. What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little...