Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These sets are designed to be in keeping with the trend toward the bizarre and the impressionistic in the modern drama. They make no attempt at realism, They, like the play, are indicative of a mood rather than of an action, and to this, they supply an adequate background. Scenery of this type proved effective in the recent Broadway production of John Howard Lawson's "Processional...
Certainly there is nothing to worry the money market. Interest rates on call loans, in some ways the reliable barometer, and the general trend of money rates have eased perceptibly. Good commercial paper is scarce, since concerns are not borrowing extensively...
...overpopulation but depopulation that threatens our country today, asserted Mr. Goldstein. "With birth prevention, and its corrolary, divorce, unfortunately on the increase, the trend of events point the other way. The figures presented recently by Mr. Louis I. Dublin, the insurance statistician, show that America will have to abolish her restrictive immigration laws to keep up to her numbers if the natural laws of generation are not more fully obeyed by our married native population. If our country should legalize the dissemination of anti-procreation information, advocated at this Harvard Liberal Club a couple of weeks ago, a disregard...
...Propaganda and big business have rendered most news journals useless as conveyors of fact. They are mirrors of bias. This trend began during the war and is now predominant. The CRIMSON has no interests controlling it and so it is live where its contemporaries are dead. Its life is mirrored in its editorials, which express a definite, forceful opinion in great contrast to a journal which must cater to its public...
Alabama and Virginia are at present the only other states which punish robbery by death. The Missouri statute is contrary to the general trend of the law, which, since 1780, when there were 240 capital offenses in England, has been away from capital punishment...