Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Republican leaders are at best lukewarm in seconding the suggestion for a World Court. They are evidently very dubious of the advisability of such a move. It yet remains to be seen whether the President will override their hesitancy and take the lead on his own initiative. The trend of Republican opinion seems definitely to be that domestic prosperity will be the determining factor in the 1924 campaign. With this in mind, the railroad problem should be the most important issue, the question of tariff and taxes would be best left untouched and the World Court would...
With reports now in on the number of immigrants to this country for the first seven months of the fiscal year which began on July 1, 1922, it is possible to foresee the general trend of the entire year's immigration. Three-quarters of the countries from which immigrants come to the United States have already filled their maximum quota under the 3% law. Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Sweden, France and Austria are the principal nations which have not yet filled their annual quotas. But of these, all except Germany have filled more than seven-twelfths of their allotment...
...March number of Foreign Affairs a parallel is drawn between the possible trend of French policy and Napoleon's Moscow campaign: "They (the Germans) see two alternatives for France-retreat from an untenable position or a further advance into unoccupied Germany, perhaps to Berlin or even to Konigsburg. This possibility, galling as it would be to their pride, they foresee with equanimity ... it would mean a repetition of Napoleon's Moscow campaign. Passive resistance would make the maintenance of scattered bodies of troops so far from their bases quite out of the question...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...expansion in production and trade, and the upward trend in raw material prices, were both strongly maintained. Perhaps the most interesting and significant examples of economic tendencies now visible throughout almost all lines of business, have been furnished by recent developments in iron, steel, oil, cotton...