Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Brooks, in explaining the loss of accreditation, said that "there has been a definite trend in the school since the war towards more science and less engineering practice in our curriculum...
...Division has gone further than most engineering schools towards the pure sciences, Dean Brooks commented. He pointed out that the lack of separate programs in the various fields of engineering at Harvard is a manifestation of this trend. "This trend has certainly been one of the problems which has affected accreditation," he added, "because the ECPD is looking for an educational program which has design as a very important constituent...
Counter to the overall trend, the sale of magazines in the Freshman Union increased, according to Robert D. Storey '58. However freshmen have also taken to eating a greater number of aspirin than before and at a rate higher than upperclassmen...
...business. In 1946 furriers had nearly $500 million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
...major trend is back to fur collars on coats and suits, long out of style. A miss who is so minded can even breakfast in a fur-trimmed housecoat, go out for cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail...