Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Britons at the San Francisco conference: a socialist victory in Canada, or even a marked socialist trend, would substantially help Britain's Labor Party in the British general election (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...also includes science, history, mathematics, English, Greek, modern languages. The only other courses are ethics for first-year students, cartography for seniors. Roxbury's present Headmaster George Norton Northrop, proud of his boys' consistent high marks in college entrance examinations, is calmly confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance (but in English) of Aristophanes' Clouds. Students dressed as roosters would stand behind bars and expound the theme of education-for-its-own sake: "The greatest of all blessings...
...Stettinius could hardly have taken any other course. The recent trend of hemisphere policy, not to mention the pledges at the recent Mexico City conference, had committed the U.S. to a straight power game, as amoral as Russia's game in eastern Europe. In the case of Argentina the two gamesters clashed, and the U.S. won the dubious showdown. Thoroughly at home in that kind of contest, Molotov next day blandly joshed Stettinius and Eden: "You know, gentlemen, that little voting game we had yesterday may become a dangerous game. Imagine a country having at her disposal...
...consummation of a treaty, I hope that the next trend of public opinion will recognize that under our own theory nations are coequal, and therefore any treaty must represent compromise...
Based on New York City records (considered typical of U.S. cities), the chart shows the general trend of changes in death rates, by diseases, since 1930. Thanks to universal vaccination, sulfa drugs, penicillin, etc., the mortality from most germ diseases is dropping toward the vanishing point (diphtheria deaths, for example, dropped from a yearly average of 1,290 in 1910-19 to seven in 1944). But deaths from degenerative diseases have risen sharply, and are still rising...