Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also reversed a trend alarming to those who believe that a democracy is weakened when citizens fail to go to the polls: the 60 million turnout represented more than 61% of U.S. adults. In 1948, only 52% of those over 21 voted...
...bringing out his 1953 models, Trailer Maker MacDonald was reinforcing his position as top man in an industry which in 22 years has grown from almost nothing to a $248 million annual gross. MacDonald typifies the trend. A onetime bus driver, he bought a trailer company in Chicago in 1945, grossed $300,000 the first year. Now he owns seven companies that will gross an estimated $22 million in 1952, with almost 10% of the market...
Professors could not agree yesterday on whether the recent German elections portend the rise of nazism. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, felt that the small increase of Nazi strength in local elections does not indicate a general trend...
Edward Perroy, exchange professor of History, disagreed as a French Socialist. He said, "The German elections indicate the general European trend toward the right. We must be careful before giving Germany free government and a large army...
...characterizes simple-minded zealots, incapable of comprehending a blueprint and frankly afraid of it. These are people fearful that machines will make hands useless and brains even less necessary. To escape from possible superannuation, they return, at least symbolically, to soil and unquestioning faith. It is an alarming literary trend that pushes humanity back to the slime, but it can sometimes provide good theatre...