Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About 30% of marriages involving U.S. Catholics are now mixed, reported Brother Gerald J. Schnepp of St. Mary's University of San Antonio. There is every indication that the percentage will rise. "If we cannot stop the trend, we should at least take steps to decrease the disorganizing effects...
...help promote an improbable trend back to "good music," station WJQS in Jackson, Miss, put some 5,000 rock 'n' roll records in a coffin, hauled the gone stuff to a local shopping center for a symbolic funeral service. Unfortunately, the disks were not buried but passed out gratis to a horde of screaming teenagers...
...parents, new homeowners. Yet furniture men are the first to admit that promotion alone is not enough. The real remedy for the industry's ailments is to produce better-styled, lower-priced furniture. Kroehler recently brought out a medium-priced line (see cut) that follows the new trend of matching pieces for all rooms, and it is selling well. With it, a family can furnish a two-bedroom house for less than $2,000. Furniture men will have an increasingly tough time trying to sell cheap but poorly made or cheap but flashy furniture, known in the trade...
...Leading Series alone. In the past, when the Leading Series turned in one direction and the Composite Series moved in the same direction several months afterwards, the economy has usually followed in that direction. Therefore, the leaders give the first clues, and the composites later confirm them as a trend...
...element assumes much significance in college choice motivations, especially when parents steer their children towards schools with which mom and dad are familiar. In Scarsdale the important question is not whether you go, but where you go to college. The records for 1956 and 1957 do reveal, though, some trend toward a wider distribution of colleges attended by the school's graduates. More students have been directed toward two year schools: only six per cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing competition...