I have been having a lot of fun experimenting with Google's new Ngram Viewer which lets users find out how often a word occurs in the millions of books they have scanned.
Have a look at Expatriate versus Foreigner. What does this tell us?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=expatriate%2Cforeigner&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Cost of living peaked during the Great Depression
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=cost+of+living&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Try your own experiments.
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