Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applications for next year's Radcliffe freshman lass have risen substantially, following a similar trend in the nation's men's colleges, Miss Constance Ballou, Director of Admissions, said yesterday...
...speeches, articles and reports, almost every college president has had his say on the subject. But though some welcome the trend and others view it with alarm, all agree that a new era in education seems to be upon them. Between 1900 and 1950, the population of the U.S. doubled; in the last 20 years, the birth rate has shot up 88%, hitting 3,900,000 in 1953. If the same percentage of young people go to college by 1970 as at present (about 30%), enrollments will jump 75% to 4,219,047. Should the college percentage increase...
Though Whitlock termed the prediction "a considered guess," he said that the trend established in recent years is to an increased number of House applications by undergraduates from the Greater Boston area...
...This trend in the Soviet Union has been observed by Michael Karpovich, the Curt Huge Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature. "There was considerable variety of thought immediately after the Revolution," Karpovich said, "but now thought is so uniform that it is boring...
...member of the Russian Research Center, said it is much too early to know whether or not there will be any significant change in Russia's relations toward China. But, as he pointed out, during the short period of time when Malenkov was Prime Minister, there was a trend to ease the difference of the two countries, and there is no present reason for the trend to halt...