Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Economics gave the principal talk at the Liberal Club's discussion with the three visiting foreign students last night. Robson compared the present day Fabian Society, composed of men like Sidney Watt and Robert Tawney, to the small group headed by John Stuart Mill which changed the whole trend of thought in England after the Napoleonic Wars...
Everyone who regrets the original independence and pioneer spirit will encourage this effort. Unfortunately it is a counter-movement, a reaction, directly contrary to the present trend. A curious combination of economic dependence with political and social dissatisfaction has given rise to a most difficult situation, which such forces as the Ku Klux have only made more acute. At first glance "The Minute Men" are directed against the Klan, but essentially their object is much the same. Both societies seek a return to conditions once considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL?D. H. Law-rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...fact that stock prices are in the main hesitant is impressing Wall Street, as well as other communities who realize their record as a business barometer. Industrial shares have been irregularly weak, and the general market without strong trend up or down. This may be a "technical reaction" after the great previous price rise, or it may express far-sighted doubts as to business next fall. Undoubtedly the market is now in a better technical position, however, and the drop of call money under 5% has not been without a favorable effect upon it. Bonds have turned firmer, after their...