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Word: trended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although acknowledging that last week's vote of the College did not match their advance hopes, the Student Council last night elected to accept, with two dissenting votes, the student trend in favor of the new constitution and to proceed with formal ratification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Ready To Ratify Constitution | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

Purists may deplore this trend toward fashioning sport into a form of business venture, and colleges may set themselves up a high-sounding set of ethical principles which they expect promptly to ignore, but a truly realistic glance at the situation can only result in accepting the situation that exists. No college whose endowment stems chiefly from its football team can be expected to cut off its source of life; no tennis tournament entrepreneur is going to eliminate his well-padded list of expense accounts. The thin line that divides "amateur" from "professional" is becoming ever thinner, and no amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: May the Better Man Win | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...trade if it is to prosper. And America can export only if it accepts imports of approximate value as repayment. Through the medium of the reciprocal trade agreements, the gradual attainment of these conditions has been made possible. The best interests of the nation will be served if the trend continues toward and not away from tariff reductions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

Unofficial surveys of early returns last night indicated a 90 percent trend in favor of the committee's recommendations. Weld informed his voting public last night that "we will need 2700 affirmative votes. Only a real majority will put us over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Exhaust Ballot Supply in Early Voting | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

...sure as the swing of the brass rod in the grandfather's clock. The businessman's defense is to make money in the sunshine, enough at least to oil his idle machinery in the dead days at the bottom of the cycle. The result is the increasing trend toward consolidation and away from the dispersion of ownership that, theoretically, should preserve the balance of power in the business community. In the same way the worker, union and non-union, lives with the fear of jobless days ahead. In his own way he attempts to accumulate enough fat to live through...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

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