Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Triumphantly "My Friend Otha" concluded his campaign: "The issue is clear. It is simply a question of whether Iowa wants to go forward with Roosevelt or backward with his enemies...
...miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral for the new "Nazi martyrs." Thousands of Sudetens poured into the 17th-Century town on autos, bicycles and afoot for the ceremony. Leaning backward to prevent another "incident," the Czechoslovakian Government ordered troops in the vicinity confined to barracks, even as far as to allow Henlein's "illegal" white-shirted Storm Troopers to assume police duties...
...decided to cut the boy's skull across, from temple to temple. This Surgeon Schoenfeld did last week, wedging the halves apart by three-fifths of an inch, knowing that scar tissue would close the transverse gap if the child lived, hoping that the brain would grow forward & backward as Nature must have intended. Next day, convalescent Alden Vorrath's cheerfulness promised well for his future intelligence, well for Surgeon Schoenfeld's daring surgery...
...businessmen and schoolmen agreed that: 1) U. S. education in recent years has paid too much attention to methods of teaching and not enough to social problems; 2) business has been backward in adjusting itself to new technological conditions. But when they began to discuss what should be done about it, the debate grew bitter. Businessman Houston warned the educators they were flirting with dangerous, collectivistic ideas. More bluntly, Businessman Jones charged them with letting businessmen down, demanded that they do something to remove the impression prevalent among businessmen that educators were "persistently questioning the continued usefulness to society...
...straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven from the farms when the fathers had been recruited by State agents to take...