Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What brought the ancient sport back to popularity? Among the reasons: 1) the increase in leisure time and the five-day week; 2) a growing trend away from private country-club golf toward public golf (construction of military and company courses has been a major factor); 3) improvement in equipment and in courses; 4) diligent promotional gilding of the golfing lily and, more than anything else, 5) the appearance of an exciting generation of durable (and now middleaged) champion golfers. Of the great stars, no one has done as much to bring about the revival of the game as Samuel...
...reason for this swift trend is the success of the European Payments Union, set up to stabilize European currencies and encourage freer exchange. Another reason is the strength and stability of British sterling, the exchange used in 40% of the world's foreign trade. As sterling has become stabilized, so has Britain prospered...
Portugal, Austria and Denmark have stopped inflation, ended shortages and are eager to sell abroad. Even still-ailing France and Italy are ready to go along with the trend and free their traders and citizens from the old currency controls...
...same man had an opposite reaction on William Cleaver, who, noting the message to the class from FDR in the 1929 Album, writes "it has been a long time after all and I hope the trend of the past 20-odd years toward a centralized and socialized state has at last been halted...
...trend toward increased emphasis on Harvard football during the junior year was dramaticized by the plea of athletic director William J. Bingham for a stadium capable of housing 80,000 spectators. Throughout the spring term the argument raged back and forth, as the Corporation postponed final decision. Finally, on June 1, the governing body voted to replace the condemned wooden stands with concrete seats. But the following fall permanent concrete stands were found to be too expensive and permanent steel stands were constructed to enclose the open end of the stadium...