Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...multitude of suggestions for improvement you receive may I add a request for more Russian and Asia Minor news, and (at the risk of being suspected of descending to the ridiculous), an occasional word as to style trend in men's apparel at Home. Doubtless my wife would appreciate the same in regard to women's fashions, but that strikes a less responsive chord...
...wrote Mr. Sacco and so, apparently, well might he have written, for the trend of events last week continued to offer no encouragement to Sacco-Vanzetti adherents. There had been not the slightest official indication that the case has taken an unfavorable turn for the condemned men, but both the prisoners themselves and their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting...
According to the trend of golf rulings, an amateur player ceases to be an amateur when he accepts a position which is connected, even indirectly, with his skill or fame as a golfer. Francis Ouimet was barred from amateur tournaments of the U. S. Golf Association in 1916 when he became a partner in a sporting goods store. George Von Elm lost his standing in 1922 for practically the same reason. Both were later reinstated...
...prospect viewed in the light of the present system of endowed education is decidedly gloomy. But whether or not Mr. Rockefeller has accurately forecast the trend in the relationship between wealth and education, the problem remains one for the educators to solve both as a safeguard against such a situation and as an extreme important problem in itself...
...questions come to the mind of a commentator. The first asks who is responsible for the trend. One answer is that the attempt to educate men regardless of capabilities leads naturally to the adoption of quickly attainable objectives, that administrators of public systems are well aware of this despair of convincing the generality of people that the indeterminate paths of learning are worth travelling, and therefore succumb, that politicians aid and abet all moves to make education practical because most electors are practical-minded...