Word: trending
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Upward Trend Seen...
General consensus feels that the '49-'50 upward trend will resume. Many institutions expected to reach their peak year by 1954 under normal trends, but are now worrying about how to keep their heads above water. Some 500 small colleges are in serious danger unless they got financial aid soon. They fear that to survive under present conditions would involve lowering their standards far below the one on which they are willing to operate...
...Berlin's municipal elections this week showed an opposite trend: the Socialists lost ground; the Christian Democratic Union gained. Berliners agreed with staunch Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter: they would fight the Reds whether they got Allied arms...
...major proposals and several minor ones designed to counteract the trend toward mass education appear in the advising report. The proposal most directly aimed at improving personal faculty student contact is a group tutorial plan under which every student in the five largest academic departments could meet twice monthly for an "undergraduate seminar" with four other students and a faculty member in his field of concentration. This program would give the 75 percent of the students in these departments who are not now on tutorial an organized intellectual relationship with some specific faculty member. Such formal contact should then...
...than it was last winter. So far the $1,217,000 of Brink's haul has bought only three things: an open season on armored trucks, a few Hallowe'en mask robberies, and a noticeable decline of crime in Massachusetts. Robberies in the Boston area took a noticeable downward trend after January 17 last, when seen men "of medium height and weight," clad in navy pea jackets and wearing grotesque Hallowe'en masks, carried out the largest cash robbery in American history. The records of what the local newspapers like to call "Boston's crack Criminal Investigation Department" show very...