Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Canada became a confederated nation in 1867, an estimated 4,000,000 Canadians have emigrated to the presumably greener pastures of the U.S. Many a patriotic Canadian, alarmed by this trend, has urged his countrymen to stay home. Last week an American preached the same warning-but for a new reason...
...Nigerians; the town-dwelling Yorubas; and the farming Ibos. Mutual antagonism, sometimes exploited by the British, has kept the tribes apart. Since Zik's return, however, there has been a rapprochement. Zik, an Ibo, now wears a combination of Hausa and Yoruba style clothes to symbolize the new trend...
...present enlistment rates, the Army will be even worse off by fall. By July 1, it will have lost the last of its draftees. From July to September a rush of departing short-term volunteers will boost discharge totals to 40,000 a month. To offset the trend, the Army can only hope for a big influx of high-school graduates (who are less enthusiastic about volunteering since the end of the draft) and a new recruiting bill now before Congress. The bill would permit enlistments of between two and six years, with a $50 annual bonus for indefinite "career...
...unhealthy emphasis on grades" that Mr. Bender noted in his, "Report On the Veteran" he now feels is being given the needed treatment of a greater interest in extracurricular activities. Whether this is the trend in the right direction of getting the veterans out of their book-lined fox holes remains to be seen, but it indicates that the balanced individual Mr. Bender seeks may eventually emerge on the undergraduate scene. At any rate, the problems of the next few years have been clearly stated and Mr. Bender gives every indication of ability to cope with them successfully...
...degree simply by accumulating, magpie-style, a collection of unrelated courses. Concentrators from the class of 1950, and those who follow, will have to take Divisional examinations, tutorial or no. The Department's action is striking because it brings home one unpleasant consequence of the trend away from tutorial: non-honors candidates graduated by the Department will from now on not be expected to know as much as their pre-war counterparts...