Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discernible in the activities of the National Council and other interdenominational organizations is the definite trend toward Protestant church unity. Notable in this respect was the session, held in Cleveland a few days before the meeting of the Federal Council, of the National Church Comity Council. Finding few points of dissension, the 500 delegates from 30 denominations agreed upon a definition of competitive denominationalism in small communities, a competition which leads to poor sermons, impoverished churches, shabby rivalries between small congregations. They agreed that communities of 1,000 persons, if provided with more than one Protestant edifice, were "overchurched...
...States is an expensive and nearly useless watch-dog. Because of the failure of pacifistic statesmanship, nearly nine-tenths of the country's revenue is poured down the gullet of Mars. But even this could be borne, as it has been borne, if it were not for the alarming trend that prophecy and propaganda are taking...
...Villard points out that the political dangers of this trend are the greatest. Of the papers that have vanished lately, the majority have been Democratic, with a corresponding stifling of expression by one of the two national parties in a number of states. It is possible, thinks the writer, that with a certain initial layout, one party may get control of the larger portion of the American printing presses...
...complete success of the Reading Period experiment at Harvard was secured yesterday through the unstinting efforts of Mr. Ward, of the Watch and Ward Society. Leading authorities concurred last night in the belief that the recently-discovered manuscripts throw invaluable light on the social, economic, and political trend of the times, besides providing interesting material bearing on the attitude of modern youth toward education...
TIME, Dec. 26, p. 11: "The Smith plan would require . . . experts to make punishments fit crimes." Has not the trend of criminological thought for at least the past 50 years been toward emphasizing the offender rather than an isolated act, the crime, in determining punishment? All recent developments in the field of penology (i.e. the indeterminate sentence, probation, parole and the reformatory) have been in this direction. Is it possible that Governor Smith's proposal, which you hailed as "a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox...