Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other tackle contests will be fought between the remaining six Houses and other Yale Colleges. Many of these rivalries have now become traditional. Others have been inaugurated for the first time this year. In any case they illustrate the increasing trend toward intercollegiate athletics...
...vote by counties (see map) illustrated the great main trend of the 1940 election: industrial centres had voted for President Roosevelt, rural counties for Wendell Willkie. Every city of more than 400,000, with the exception of Cincinnati, went for President Roosevelt. The President won Illinois by only 94,000 votes. But Chicago gave him a plurality of 295,206, and the same city-county discrepancy appeared in New York, Missouri, Wisconsin. He carried approximately 54.6% of the popular vote of the nation (see p. 67). He carried approximately 52.5% of the popular vote outside the Solid South (where, nevertheless...
...meat of U. S. democracy. It was American Education Week, and its slogan this year was "Education for the Common Defense." Visitors saw much flag-saluting, heard much anthem-singing. But beyond that, they found educators confused, uncertain what had to be done. Disquieting to progressives was a Spartan trend toward calisthenics instead of games, military drill for boys, more homework, less music...
...step with the present trend in the American theatre toward comedy, the Harvard Dramatic Club has chosen as its next production, a farce, "Too Much Johnson," by William Gillette...
...tendency toward linearity" was the scientific way that Dr. Seltzer put it. Translated from statistics, this means that the trend of college students has been away form the stocky, muscular, boney build of the football player, narrow-hipped physique of the ideal Harvard gentleman...