Word: backward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp, meagre face and deliberate gait, dragging by the hand a small, disagreeable-looking boy in a homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows-agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. were visiting the campus of Hampton Institute (for Negroes). Naturally the good-natured blackamoors stared at this rich old man and his scrawny, trembling son. Last week, this son made a generous gift. He gave...
...doubt some Harvard men are still addicted to drinking in their homes," he says. "But when a Harvard Club Dinner Committee intimates that drinks will be served at its annual dinner, what are serious alumni to think of so backward a step...
...initiative of the people; but, even in other so-called democracies, representative government, with all its flaws, is the most perfectly practical form of government known; and its success is undoubtedly determined in ratio to the political consciousness of the people. When, however, representative government is introduced into backward countries whose populace is for the most part ignorant and whose leaders are often corrupt, it becomes nothing short of a farce. At Bagdad, capital of Iraq, officials decided to postpone a general election for the first national parliament. The circumstances were unique; The population of the country-man, woman...
...first came up in the Arkansas legislature and was there ratified. Since then it has suffered steady reverses; the legislatures of Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana declined to ratify it. This is not surprising, since the South has usually been backward in the regulation of child labor. Then, in the general election on Nov. 4, it was placed in referendum before the people of Massachusetts. They voted against it 3 to 1. This referendum was'merely advisory and is not binding on the Legislature although it practically insures the rejection of the Amendment by the Legislature. The National Association...
There is nothing more natural, especially in a backward country, than a desire of an ousted Premier to turn around and oust the fellow who ousted...