Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stewart closed with an attempt to analyze the modern trend in humor. "It sort of spoils humor to talk about it, but a new type of humor that I call 'divine craziness' is coming over us," he explained, and showed his meaning by the story of a drunk who came home with a long cut on the top of his head. "How did you cut yourself?" his wife asked. "I bit myself," was the reply. "How did you bite yourself so high up?" "I stood on a chair...
...taken up by agricultural efforts this spring to plant large crops at high prevailing prices, and by considerable commercial expansion. Also, the outward flow of U. S. gold continues. The Reserve has simply recognized the existing situation and, in a conservative way, endeavored to prepare for the rather obvious trend of subsequent future events...
...philosophers are rare in these materialistic days, it is no less true that philosophy is something at which to shy--and avoid, if possible, in mapping out college courses. In a time of intense practical activity it is observed that thought and theory fail to keep pace with the trend of events; but if history has showed this tendency in the past, that fact is no argument against an attempt to formulate a philosophy for the present. For even such practical social programs as those presented by Socialists, Liberals, and Conservatives there is but a feeble attempt at a crystallization...
...recent action. The sons of Yale graduates are to be given preference only if they can fulfill the entrance requirements. Such limitation must, of course, debar the unfit and open limitless possibilities to those who can and will profit by their advantages. On the whole, this is the present trend in American colleges...
...truth of the matter is, however, that this inefficiency is inherent in a democratic state. Devise any scheme which separates the law making body from constant dependence on the mass of the people, and the result is a trend away from the principles of pure democracy. And it is upon those theories that the whole framework of American government is based. Its evils must be accepted with its blessings...