Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a notable trend this year toward ecclesiastical do-it-yourself. "Save up to 50%," J. Theodore Cuthbertson Inc. urges readers of Episcopal and Presbyterian magazines, "on Finest Quality Church Vestments with Ready-to-Sew Cut-Out Kits." Hopkins Co. offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity-only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50. Priests would presumably be relieved to receive NOWILTEX clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience...
...those who ride the 4:15 out of Northwestern station. We call that train the 'Coronary.' It's the only train that has an elevator meeting it at Winnetka. If you can't take the kidding, you're not getting along well. The whole trend in treatment is to kid about it. My first reaction was to keep my attack quiet. My doctor said, 'We will, like hell. I'm going to put it in the papers'-and he did. In that way, you're relieved of the secret...
...lengthy finding last week, the ICC outlined how its decisions had consistently reflected the thinking of the Supreme Court and the trend of the country. The ICC had noted soon after its inception in 1887 that in Washington, the capital city, "white and colored children are educated in separate schools. Congress votes public moneys to separate charities . . . Trades unions . . . maintain and march in separate organizations." Accordingly, the ICC defined its 1887 segregation policy for railroads to "aim at a result most likely to conduce to peace and order and to preserve the self-respect and dignity of citizenship...
...with the most menial tasks in a city hospital accident room. The enthusiasm which College and Radcliffe Volunteers have shown since the beginning of the term, in a veritable renaissance of student concern for the healing of human malady, is regarded by some as the start of a national trend among college students...
...year's gift to the School, President Pusey added last night, "will bring great encouragement to all people interested in the improvement of medical education. Let us hope that the action of the Commonwealth Fund in supplying unrestricted monies from its capital, may signalize the opening of a new trend in foundation giving in the field of medical education...