Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local trend, in contrast to a slight decline in sales reported in New York during the past few days, has been a continued increase in the volume of purchases...
...campaign's closing days, the news of Labor's defeat in New Zealand severely jarred Chifley and his men, made a sharp impression on the voters. Menzies hoped New Zealand and Australia had set a trend against Socialism that would reach all the way "home," i.e., to Britain. Said Melbourne's dapper Richard G. Casey, onetime Minister to Washington: "The man who should get the most kick out of this is Winston Churchill...
Schlesinger called the statement of Secretary of State Dean Acheson that he would consult the Senate before making any decision on the recognition of Communist China "part of the trend away from executive decision on matters of foreign policy...
Fine Arts offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it did ten years...
...thirties in Dean's Office regulation of student activities and found four major causes for this increase: 1) the cold war and consequent political tensions, discussed in yesterday's editorial, 2) growing concern over organizational bad debts, and 3) Increased sensitiveness about public relations, discussed today, 4) a trend towards closer Harvard-Radcliffe relations which the Dean's Office considers extremely unfortunate, to be taken up in tomorrow's editorial...