Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first federal budget presented by a Republican Administration in 21 years. Dwight Eisenhower last week set a new tone and trend. He called for1) lower taxes, 2) less Government spending, 3) reduced appropriations for future years, 4) a smaller deficit, and 5) the transfer of some Federal Government activities to private enterprise and to local governments. It was, said the President, the kind of fiscal program that used "necessity-rather than mere desirability-as the test for our expenditures...
...University has many faults. It has not been able to fit into its liberal arts structure such fringe items of education as basic language instruction and ROTC. The trend of its tuition policies is toward turning the student body into a mixture of the wealthy and the scholarship holder, with a disregard for the problems of those in between. Its parietal administrators still-seem to adhere to the ascetic standards of a prep school. Yet on matters like distribution and sale of football tickets, it tolerated abuses until unfavorable publicity became inevitable...
Ernest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, yesterday lamented a trend toward taller men, and concluded that 'most people who stand six-five or six-six are tragie...
...present trend is to put the pilot in a streamlined, detachable capsule to ease his return to earth, but even this system will have its dangers at future speeds and altitudes. In a report of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, Dr. Fritz Haber considers the problem of escape from aircraft flying at 300,000 ft. (57 miles...
...long-term trend against individual thought is undermining the task of American private colleges, President Pusey said Saturday...