Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest numerical gain between 1926 and 1941-42 was scored by the largest single sect,* the Roman Catholics, with 4.3 million. But by percentages, Roman Catholicism is doing no better than the general trend: during the same period, "the 43 larger Protestant denominations showed a combined rate of growth of nearly 24%-almost identical with the percentage gain of the Roman Catholic Church...
Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman told a capacity crowd at Agassix Theatre last night that the intellectual trend today is one towards "negativism, alienatation, and pessimism," while the reaction to this is "herdism, expressing itself in such a movement as Nazism...
...endowments. It is true that the University owes its origin to the desire to feed Puritan pulpits and, significantly or not, the first faculty chair was the Holis Professorship of Divinity (1721); but the non-sectarian aspect of a Harvard divinity education can be identified with the College trend toward liberalism, as early as President Leverett's administration in the beginning of the eighteenth century. In fact, the Hollis chair, even though used for Congregationalist ends, was donated by a Baptist...
With few old favorites left to warm their adjectives over, German critics pounced on newcomer Koerner. Those who supposed that his work showed the trend of U.S. art proudly concluded that painting in the U.S. had gone German. Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner...
...Wedding Rings. Meanwhile, Observer Root finds both Catholics and Protestants deeply concerned at another trend in postwar Italy-anti-clericalism...