Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the 'Cliffie is allowed a great deal of freedom in governing her social life, in line with a trend followed by the majority of liberal arts colleges. Although the unrestricted liberty of girls at co-educational Reed College in Oregon or Antioch in Ohio is neither her possession nor her goal, the 'Cliffie does have certain privileges which are denied her counterparts at Wellesley and Vassar. For example, the Radcliffe student's late permissions are unlimited except during the first semester of freshman year. Wellesley girls, however, must spend four years arranging their social lives around a specified number...
...answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa might be split between African and white at the Zambezi River, with ominous consequences. Was it too late to arrest the trend? In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet, without seeking Welensky's advice-and, as it turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert, flew in transport planes from Cyprus and Singapore. If an emergency...
Though unwilling to view the figures as indicating a trend, von Stade termed the present number of drop-outs "fantastically small" compared with most colleges...
This season, however, this trend was finally reversed, and it seems likely that it will remain at least partially reversed for the next few years, as Vehslage of Princeton will clearly dominate Intercollegiate squash during that time and may well become the best player in the world...
...newly formed Veritas Foundation has sent 15,000 letters to selected alumni, asking financial support to combat "Harvard's trend to the left." Three New York members of the former Veritas Committee, which opposed the 1957 appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer as William James Lecturer, are trustees of the Foundation...