Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...
...harmonize with the Harvard of the future. Mr. Paine had this in view when he guessed that the erection of new units along the river front will bring a shift in the center of Harvard population, and suggested the location of the new chapel in accordance with this trend. Further, the correlative elimination of the difficulties of reconciling any style of architecture with the surroundings in which a substitute for Appleton Chapel would find itself clearly supports his argument...
...investigation of the trend taken by recent Junior dances would no doubt have the effect of placing the 1930 dance in a state of jeopardy rather than initiating a new venture into the unstable realm of Harvard terpsichorean celebrations. Year after year there has been a steady decline in interest in the Junior dance involving natural financial embarrassment for the Committee and requiring inroads into the class funds. From the social point of view, likewise, the third year dance has tended to prove itself a white elephant, owing to the waning social homogeneity of a class, especially after its initial...
These remarks evoked a storm of criticism from the foreign students gathered at the meeting, and the speaker was met on all of his arguments. It was argued that the present trend of materialism has concentrated its efforts for the benefit of the people now on the spot, a position diametrically opposed to that with which the country was established and settled...
...federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this trend...