Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
...Post-Dispatch. The P-D will move bodily out of its smaller quarters (built in 1917, added to in 1941) into the Globe building; the Globe will lease new office space elsewhere. The P-D will print all editions of the Globe on contract, thereby follow the national trend (Chicago, Chattanooga), dictated by rising costs, of using one set of presses to print morning and afternoon papers. The Globe will abandon its Sunday paper, print a Saturday morning weekend edition with Sunday supplements, sell it on Saturday and Sunday for 10? v. 20? for the Sunday...
...sales within the state. Of the 35 states that tax corporation income, 24 already tax interstate corporations on the basis of their business within the state, using a formula of payroll, property and sales within the state. What the court's ruling does is affirm the trend, pointing up the need for a single state-tax formula for interstate corporations...
With these innovations Arlington Books "will be able to resist the current trend of printing bad books on the theory that this is the only way one can afford publishing good ones," Bledsoe asserted. Darwin, Wallace by Bert J. Loewenberg was the first book released by the company, and two others will be published next week...
Weather Scanner. Vanguard's new satellite is probably the most sophisticated bit of spaceware to leave the ground so far. Its job is to scan a broad belt around the earth, reporting on the cloud patterns that indicate the trend of the earth's weather. Ordinary meteorological methods keep accurate track of the weather over only 5% of the earth's surface. Vanguard II will raise this figure toward 25%, giving hope of understanding how worldwide weather works...