Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend to professionalism tends to destroy the one thing which made America a great nation; great discoveries and inventions are made primarily for service and not for monetary gain." Rusty said that somewhere in The Decline and Fall Historian Edward Gibbon listed the professionalizing of athletics as one of the five reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. "And we are moving in that direction here. When we were youngsters, we played games because we wanted to, and won because we were the best, not because we expected to receive any extra rewards. Sometimes I wonder whether the average...
Danzig's ignorance of his subject last Saturday appeared finally in his coverage of the relay events. He said the Crimson trend toward defeat started when it lost the opening medley relay. He didn't know enough about Crimson swimming to realize that Ulen entered his second medley team in order to save his best three men for later events...
...Whether this trend will cause a liberalization in the regime or bring Russia closer to 1984, I don't know," he said...
...Council discussion indicated a trend towards urging that all individual participation in post-season all-star games be permitted. A motion that would have asked that teams be allowed to compete failed for lack of a second. It seemed likely that when the subject is re-opened at next week's meeting, a proposal favoring at least some individual participation in post-season charity contests would be passed, even if not identical to the Cornell and Brown resolutions...
Democracy differs from Communism, Williams said, in that it does not claim to be supreme in people's lives. "Let us not continue the trend toward a democratic theism," he stated...