Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concepts in missile technology will create a trend toward unifying the three branches of the Armed Forces, Malcolm A. MacIntyre, Undersecretary of the Air Force, told members of the Young Republican Club last night...
...first-quarter records"), Kaiser Steel (76? v. 46?), Pittsburgh Steel (66? v. a loss last year), Detroit Steel (83? v. a loss last year), Allegheny Ludlum ($1.18 v. 19?) and Granite City (up 70% to a near record of $1.62 a share). Only Lukens Steel was off the trend ($1.06 v. $1.54 last year), but expects the second quarter to be better...
...situation is further complicated by the rapid upward trend of Advanced Placement students. In the last three year, participants in this program have increased from 13 to 31 to 55, and this trend, said Bender, "indicates that we may have around 80 Advanced Placement students" enrolling this fall...
...been satisfactorily established. The Predicted Rank List, which tries to sum up ability and motivation, is by no means infallibile, since Group IV PRL entrants have gone on to receive Magnas, and vice versa. Although an applicant will probably never stand or fall on Predicted Rank List alone, the trend is to lop off applicants on the very lowest range of ability. Five or six years ago, the average Harvard student was in the top 5 per cent of the nation's college group, now he is in the top 3 per cent. Ten per cent of the class...
...There is only one trend in the American theatre, and that trend is Eli Kazan.... I certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully good plays on that subject"; here he instances Oedipus Rex. But "Oedipus expiates for the sake of his entirectiy," while the heroes of J.B. and Sweet Bird of Youth (the two plays most recently directed by Kazan) are concerned in their expiation only with themselves. "Somehow the connection between strong...