Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spiritualist societies do not keep membership rolls, at least 250,000 believers go to Sunday-night meetings and probably 1,000,000 altogether call themselves Spiritualists. The Confraternity of Clergy, Ministers and Spiritualists claims that 100 Christian divines belong to the cult. Alarmed by this trend, the Archbishop of Canterbury more than four years ago appointed a committee to investigate Spiritualism...
...four factors tend to push the U. S. into the war: "British propaganda. . . . Sentimental reaction to the invasion of Finland. . . . The activity of idealists-both Christian and non-Christian-trying to do what they can 'to save civilization.' . . . The economic system compelling the U. S. in the trend to war." In its stormy final session, the conference voted down a resolution holding that war is always unChristian, denounced conscription, upheld the Neutrality...
...Such a trend is healthy; it makes for flexibility in government, and also for efficiency in crisis times. But it is also dangerous; it is susceptible of abuse, and easily degenerates into personal despotism. The NRA was a horrible example. What is needed is a check-rein, a body to sit in judgment on the judicial angles of the work of a Labor Relations Board or a Federal Communications Commission. Obviously, the Supreme Court is that body. Recent cases involving the NLRB show a tendency to recognize its new duty. Necessary now is only increasing recognition that, in the Chief...
...could be said about Duke Ellington and his band. He was out at Briggs and Briggs last week for one of these record signing sessions, and besides amazing the various bystanders with some excellent piano, he pulled the following honey. (He had been previously declaiming against the present trend towards commercialism in jazz, and had said that all the big bands were playing "commercial." He was asked if this were true, why was it that his band had been able to go along for so many years playing untarnished jazz...
...distribution is put into effect, the net result, in my opinion, will be a decisive step backward. It implies a failure on the part of our secondary schools to provide a solid and wide basis for college work or for life. This failure almost certainly exists; yet the trend in the colleges toward "orientation" courses for the Freshman and Sophomore years tends to preserve and aggravate the insufficiency of the schools rather than to remedy it. If, instead of taking over the task of the high schools, the colleges should strive to promote in them greater adequacy and efficiency...