Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy staging their own "season survey" and "new discoveries" shows. In addition, the Modern Museum is showing its "Twelve Americans" of the year,* and two galleries are displaying the current choices and future bets of 19 museum directors and curators. The whole lavish display points up a new trend in the market place of modern art: since the contemporary field is too big to be financed by a handful of rich art connoisseurs and few critical taste-setters are influential enough even to flutter a price tag, the task of spotting promising newcomers and springboarding them to national prominence...
...furor burst because Conant turned a 73-year-old trend into a revolution and left some 2000 dentists "without heritage." He made the Dental School a satellite of the Medical School, which caused such a storm of protest across the country that the new ste-up wasn't recognized by any dental association for seven years. And to cap it all, at a time when only 34 per cent of the American people are receiving adequate dental care, Conant cut Harvard's yearly dentist output from...
...taught without pay at the School for half a century, and a gift of John T. Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers in that year. Serious dental study is plainly, then, a recent development, but the field's trend, as shown by Eliot's words and climaxed by Conant's action, is no sudden offshoot. It grew with dentistry...
...nation's business, and the blame for them fell on the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy. In Washington, Joseph B. Haverstick, president of the National Association of Home Builders, noted that the mortgage squeeze had caused a 20% drop in April housing starts. "The trend is still sharply downward," he said. "Unless there is some immediate improvement in the financing picture, the outlook for the remainder of the year is not hopeful...
Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, who had privately opposed the boost in discount rates, now publicly said that it was unnecessary and that "natural conditions" would have checked any trend toward inflation...