Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE HOME-MAKER-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt Brace ($2.00). Wearily Lester Knapp lay down at night, and in the morning roused up wearier. He hated his job in the dry-goods store, and was a failure at it. His wife scrubbed the floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip...
Perhaps never before in our history have business men given such close attention to the price indices for commodities. For this situation the fear of-or sometimes the hope of- "gold inflation" is responsible. The Bradstreet indices for July 1 showed a smart upward trend, which the weekly index numbers of Prof. Irving Fisher (Yale economist) have corroborated. The publication of the wholesale price indices for commodities by the U.S. Department of Labor-considered by many the most scientific price index available-now reaffirms the upward price tendency...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...William H. Beveridge told that the birthrate of Europe, aside from Russia, had fallen off about 20% since 1880, although no falling-off was known in the human race prior to that period. He declared that this was no gradual trend toward decreased fertility, but the result of an increase in birth-control knowledge. He declared that the decline of the birthrate coupled with the decline of the deathrate would change the complexion of England by 1940, because much older people would dominate the country. Incidentally, he asserted that coincident with the growth of birth-control the number of marriages...