Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee on Economic Research offers to business men a practical statistical service based on scientific principles. Financial conditions, particularly the trend of prices, are carefully studied, and from them a forecast of future conditions is made. In addition to the general study of economic situations, several special investigations have been made possible by gifts from Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, Philip Cabot '94, the Consolidated Steel Corporation, the American International Corporation, J. P. Morgan & Company, the National City Bank of New York, the United States Steel Products Company (the exporting branch of the United States Steel Corporation), and W. R. Grace...
...standard set by the other branches and has succeeded in securing 86 pages of advertising, for the first time not being forced to make concessions in the rates. Changing from drawings of humorous nature to others more serious and more artistic, the Arts Department kept fully astride of the trend of advancement. Taken as a whole the 1923 Red Book is a decidedly laudable production, a production meriting praise in spite of several rather evident errors in proof apparently missed in the haste to have the book ready in time for the Jubilee...
...exhibit from the Bureau of Labor Statistics includes several charts and graphs dealing with the cost of living, the trend of retail prices for special articles and the trend of wages in specified industries. The exhibits of the Bureau of Immigration, the Bureau of Naturalization, the Children's Bureau, and the Woman in Industry Service deal with special problems of these different branches of the Department of Labor and the methods which they use to cope with these problems...
Admittedly, the nickname "Buckeyes" has little significance for those outside of Ohio, but looking around, there seems to be a trend of this...
Another of his significant contributions to the improvement of precollegiate education was his work as Chairman of the "Committee of Ten" on secondary school studies. The report of this Committee (1893) prepared by president Eliot is an education classic. It immediately received wide recognition, and profoundly influenced the trend of secondary education throughout the country...