Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision which halts a 20-year trend, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the President's seizure of steel. ¶ The price and wage raises will doubtless touch off yet another postwar round of wage and price increases...
...money than any other serious composer ever made,* began by writing church music, including a Mass at the age of 21. Italian experts who heard his Mass performed in 1880 liked it pretty well. True, they felt it suffered a bit from "overabundance," and, at a time when the trend was to disembodied church music, they raised their eyebrows because some parts did not seem musically "chaste" enough. But they praised its "spontaneous melodies," predicted a fine future for its composer. Thereupon, the Mass fell into obscurity. It was not until last week, in Chicago's Grant Park, that...
Venice bulged last week with tourists and art lovers flocking to Europe's oldest (1895) and most distinguished recurring art show, the Biennale. It might be weeks before the critics finish their trend-spotting (the show contains 3,600 entries) and decide on the most noteworthy new discoveries. In the meantime, the Biennale's judges made some choices of their own, awarded top prizes of 1,000,000 lire (about $1,600) in each of four fields.The winners...
...rise of autonomous House units. A few men think that House loyalty should stand before college ties and even advance the thesis that Harvard should follow the English tradition and solicit separate endowments. (although Cambridge and Oxford are now getting gifts to the University) Most agree that furthering this trend would break up the college. Hence the strife over what records to field in the houses. Parsons reassuringly adds since faculty interest centers on graduate research, this trend can't go too far until graduate students are in the Houses: only then will faculty interest center on the Houses...
...production of The Narrow Margin, which successfully disproves Hollywood's old-ideas of good movie making, is an indication of the trend the industry is now starting to combat enemies like television which have been taking huge bites in box office returns. There is an economy move sweeping the world's glamour capital that would warm the heart of Congress. With this new move is going a nation-wide search for talent, and a general firing and salary cutting process that is shaking the foundations of many of Beverly Hills' swank shacks. The results can do the industry no harm...