Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full speed last year, Latin America's economy stumbled and lost ground, especially in the field of foreign trade. Last week, in Vol. I, No. I of its new and exhaustive Economic Bulletin for Latin America, the United Nations analyzed the trade recession-and spotted a trend that looked no better...
...Along with the postwar trend toward earlier marriage, a major reason for the nation's big surge in population is the increasing fertility of the individual U.S. mother. Last week the Census Bureau reported that between 1950 and 1954 the rate of childbearing by all U.S. mothers (aged 15 to 49) rose a whopping 11½%. ¶ Investigating their state's notoriety as a "stone area," two University of North Carolina doctors reported that too much spinach is a major cause of kidney stones. The stones are caused by excess oxalic acid in the diet, said Researchers James...
More interesting than the foreign demands, however, are the ones from this country that Coolidge traces to developments in the American cultural outlook. He notes a marked increase in interest for the visual arts and music, accompanied by a similar trend away from literature. It is no secret to today's undergraduate that he does not read as much or as widely as his father's generation did, nor that improved recording techniques have mirrored more music appreciation...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, and Holt B. Westerfield, instructor in Government, all agreed that, while the Kentucky Senator's victory was a distinct letdown to Stevenson supporters, it did not portend a trend in the Democratic party...
Last week Trustbuster Barnes gave G.M. his bluntest warning to date. Unless G.M. checks its approaching monopoly, said Barnes, the Government may have to take "extreme action," including "some rather stringent legislation." General Motors, suggested Barnes, could best reverse the trend by voluntarily spinning off one or more of its divisions as independent corporations...