Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that its radicalism is not as extreme as the first reports seemed to signify; and perhaps its lack of sheer radicalism will prove to be the most valuable element in giving it impetus and in sustaining it until its adaption to the present educational conditions has been completed. The trend has been unmistakably in the direction of splitting large educational bodies into smaller, more homogeneous groups; but the academic world is at present extremely leery, and rightfully so, of any attempt to graft the English system in force at Oxford and Cambridge on to our present institutions. American universities...
...brokers long for Saturday noon. At length, it comes. Montgomery Ward passes the 400 mark ... a new half-day record with 3,260,000 shares. . . . Sunday is quiet all right; the exchange is closed. . . " Monday is a record for all time; 5,917,000 shares change hands; the general trend is upward; Radio jumps 25 points...
...past three years the number of men taking the Language Requirements examinations has lessened considerably according to figures obtained yesterday in the Recorder's office in University Hall. The percentage of men passing the various Latin French, and German examinations however was shown by a chart to follow no trend the passing of the barriers depending directly on the preparation of the candidates the demands of the tests markers of cetera...
Abandoning its traditional policy of literary aloofness, the Advocate has, with its November issue, definitely entered the arena of opinion and criticism. Its new trend of endeavor finds substantial expression in two articles...
...Government is something greater than an efficiently administered business corporation with a multitude of inactive shareholders. We support Governor Smith above all because of his power to reverse the present trend toward political apathy and arouse in the citizens of the United States an active, intelligent interest and participation in their Government...