Word: trend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must have athletic for all in the colleges now, and I know that at Harvard and Yale that is the trend of the day. You can hear it on all sides and you can see that the students want it by reading their college papers. Everybody should be out playing, building up his body. We shouldn't spend our time developing a man to jump six feet when we have a thousand men who can't jump four feet. One thousand men who can jump four feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good...
...determine what kind of a world we are to live in during the next generation," said Dr. Crothers, after stating that he looked forward not to a long drawn out struggle, but to a sharp and bitter one of shorter duration. "Whether the general trend of the world after the war is good or evil depends upon the men coming back and upon those growing up, and mostly upon the latter, which means upon...
Although this list is small and inadequate, it shows the trend of service of University graduates; and it will be enlarged as more complete records are received...
...relations with Mars are always a subject of interest. When the weather, politics and the war have been drained dry, and nothing remains but a yawn to fill the gap of conversation; when the last conversationalist has chronic lock jaw and the last small talker is asleep, the trend of talk may turn on Mars. Mars is always safe...
...very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very little allusion. But the total effect is conventionality...