Word: backward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further misfortune befell Little Red Riding Harvard. This time the grandmother was Bruin Brown. A wild backward pass from Acting-Centre Robb of Harvard flew over Halfback Mather's head, was snared by Keefer, visiting halfback. Forward passes brought Brown near the Harvard goal. Klump clumped over. Spectators at this game eyed with interest the Brown centre, Eckstein, vendor of blood*! Score: Brown 7, Harvard...
...upon rebels and pessimists"; that Tolstoy lived nine years and Chekhov four years after the prize was established (1901); that Gorky and Andreiev, each with a wide reputation, have never been honored; that the donor's prime purpose was to establish a forum for the genius of small and "backward" nations...
...Democratic Party, under the leadership of John W. Davis, burns the bridges behind it; while the Republican Party, under the leadership of President Coolidge, 'burns the bridges before it. The Democrats will not turn backward; the Coolidge Republicans will not go forward...
...about four feet long and one foot wide, are covered with fur on the under side. The hairs point towards the back of the skiis and this enabled the Yakets to walk up hills without the use of skii poles, for the fur bushes up when there is a backward pressure on it, thus presenting a roughened surface, which sticks to the snow and will not slip...
...Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a monkey again just for tonight...