Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor. Suzuki was emphatic on the subject of the Emperor. Until just before he took office as Premier, the Emperor was uninformed about the disastrous trend of the war. Suzuki said firmly that the Emperor had been against the war, had repeatedly requested that some peaceful way out be found, that Admiral Nomura's task in Washington was to carry out the Emperor's wishes...
There was still much slack. Government and private business analysts agreed, in the main, on the immediate trend: business in general would slide downward for about six months, then climb. The optimistic guesstimaters were almost unanimous: 1947 and 1948 will see national income on a high level - perhaps about $135 billion (wartime peak: $165 billion...
...there was a noticeable drop in the sales of fur coats and jewelry. Merchants thought this was due more to the rumor that the 20% luxury tax will soon be removed than to a conservative trend in buying. Exception: in Denver, fur coats priced up to $6,000 each were selling like hotcakes...
...groups in the world today are savages in Australia and Africa; 3) civilized men of all races are becoming more & more roundheaded, probably as a result of rising from all fours to an erect posture, which changes the form of the spinal column and of the skull base. The trend toward a broader and shorter skull, says Dr. Weidenreich, has not reduced modern man's brain; it remains about the same size as that of the Neanderthal man. According to the latest theory, brainpower depends not on shape or size but on configuration of the brain surface...
...Vines is still another chapter in what seems to be a cinematic back-to-the-grass-roots trend (The Southerner, State Fair). It adds weight to the truism that eloquence about the land and its stewards increases in direct proportion to its removal from studio sets. Yet there are many moving scenes and fine performances in this film...