Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Style. No one saw any basic changes. The New Look was still the style. The only notable trend was an extravagant use of material (as much as 40 yards of cloth in one dress alone) which marked the collections of such New Look creators as Christian Dior...
...Trend. While Uruguay has been finding a way to live in comfort, something else has been going on. Under President Berreta, who died a year ago, and even more under President Batlle, Uruguay has been moving gradually towards a moderate socialism...
...anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary tells where he thinks the significance of the McCollum and other high court decisions really lies. Writes Bennett...
Evidence that few companies would be able to resist the general trend came from the Government-controlled North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. After arguing for months that the companies' prices .were already too high, the Office of Alien Property was finally won over by minority stockholders, agreed to let management charge 10% more...
...gradual settling of the prairies ended Mennonite isolation. Good crops brought prosperity. Neighbor vied with Mennonite neighbor for such worldly possessions as automobiles and radios. Children brought home new ideas. Old-line Mennonites shook their heads over marriages outside the fold, the trend away from the soil. Then, in World War II, 50% of the young Mennonites deserted the sect's pacifist principles and joined the armed services...