Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trend was away from the wartime emphasis on the natural sciences, as all but these showed greatly increased enrollments. Economics A swelled from a prewar 1940 total of 512 to a new high of 1,092 to retain its position as the largest elective course in the college...
Then Hannegan and Sullivan were off to Chicago to assess the damage in the Midwest and to try to get the National Committee machine back on its bearings. Illinois was a fair sample of the dilemma many Democratic leaders faced. A Republican trend was running; the G.O.P. was given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor...
...their wartime corner on talent. Back to Mississippi State went Army's Shorty McWilliams, back to Notre Dame went Navy's Bob Kelly, back to Penn went Navy's Tony Minisi (TIME, Sept. 9). Last week the authorities of the service academies, who had viewed the trend with dignified alarm, got support from a high quarter, Harry Truman's military aide...
Typical of the commercial trend is the new Record Album-of-the-Month Club, an illogical offspring of the book club species, Serving no original function, the Club duplicates already excellent record reviews such as those of the Gramophone Shop and Bernard Haggin, while high-pressuring gramophone owners into buying albums of similar music which they could have purchased all along. Encouraging musical inertia and lack of discrimination, the new group misses a chance to concentrate on new music, and winds up by mailing the dances from "Prince Igor" one month and "Annie Get Your Gun" the next...
...Lives (Universal) also features a big, old tree which is inhabited by spirits. This time the spirits are the unhappy ghosts of departed mortals. The movie would be of interest to no one but fans of Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, except that it underscores a mild Hollywood trend toward fantasy. (In pictures soon to be released, such diverse types as Keenan Wynn and Paul Muni also play ghosts...