Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trends. Almost everyone thinks he knows what a trend is, but to a sociologist a trend is a numerical series showing change in a more or less constant direction. The University of Chicago's tall, affable William Fielding Ogburn has made a special study of trends. He once headed a detachment of the National Resources Committee which, on the basis of trend analysis, listed 13 technologies due for a booming industrial future (TIME, July 26, 1937). Such predictions are made possible by extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...
...University lecturer who "may deliver occasional lectures" is a rather extraordinary individual. When that lecturer is a director of the British Broadcasting Corporation--an integral part of the wartime "Office of Information"--and has been given a Harvard title "under a special grant", there are grounds for healthy scepticism...
Charles Siepmann, long a director of radio programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation, has been appointed University Lecturer at Harvard for three years from December 1, 1939, under a special grant, the University announced yesterday...
Plans for the Guardian's third annual conference, to be held here Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, were made public last night by John M. London '41, undergraduate chairman of the affair. This year's subject will be a special study of propaganda. Over 200 experts from all over the country have been invited, and at least 100 undergraduates are expected to attend...