Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Statistics Charles E. Baldwin declared: "We [the U. S. Department of Labor] do not know and nobody knows how many persons there are out of employment [in the U. S.]." Mr. Baldwin explained that the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes monthly "an unemployment index which shows the trend of employment, that is, whether the number employed is increasing or decreasing." The latest (April) report of this nature by the Department of Labor declares: "The level of employment in April, 1927 was 2.4% lower than in April, 1926, and pay roll totals were .6% lower...
...current Chinese crisis is producing an entire shelf of books on modern Chinese history, but not one whose author dares to predict the future trend of Chinese development. Best of the newest histories are CHINA YESTERDAY AND TODAY-Edward Thomas Williams- Crowell ($4.50), and CHINA AND THE POWERS-Henry Kittredge Norton-John...
...along this same general trend that Mr. Aswell continues to work--this time in search of a remedy for melancholia. And, if he reaches a conclusion which although more intelligent is essentially no more correct than that of most of his predecessors it is not because he does not understand his material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind...
Following closely upon the adoption here of the pre-examination respite, this program of the Yale authorities indicates the trend of though in modern American education. Generally guided by English models whose worth has been proved through centuries as Oxford and Cambridge America is gradually arriving at a same and supremely practical plan that testers the intellectual growth of the ambitions student and at the same time tends to eliminate the haugers-on who encumber the colleges. Education is after all a matter of and for the individual, and the educational trend of the present day shows an endeavor...
...world, one knows, is always full of a sufficient number of portentous things. Miners strike; Chinamen war; cities fall; Borah talks; art, music and education trend; crime waves, tongs war, elections recur with a certain regularity...