Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Country & St. Maurice. First indication of the trend, according to Dr. C. Stanley Lowell, managing editor of the P.O.A.U. monthly, Church and State, was a drive last spring by the Catholic Holy Name Society at infantry-minded Fort Benning, Ga. to promote St. Maurice as patron saint of the infantry.* A program was drawn up. calling for erection at Benning of a $2,300 statue of the saint, the printing of 30,000 folders on his life, wide distribution of St. Maurice medals and the presentation of St. Maurice scrolls to Fort Benning visitors...
Europe itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
Allied fields such as electronics and atomic physics are attracting an increasing number of potential engineers, Haertlein added. He felt that the figures cited by Flemming did not in themselves indicate a trend since such statistics fluctuate often...
However, there has been a 10 per cent decline in new engineering majors, "which may or may not be alarming," Brooks observed. If this trend is really nationwide, "the situation could be serious, insofar as it represents a loss of talented people. In the present shortage of skilled technological men, more good engineers are needed," he concluded...
...desperate effort to stop the trend, the government announced last week that it would pay up to 36% higher prices for compulsory livestock deliveries. But the government's prices are still far below the free market prices. Gomulka is caught in a dilemma: he cannot go on as a leader of a socialist country whose farm sector is only 1% socialist; yet every time he breathes too strongly in the socialist direction, the peasantry resists...