Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are good reasons why no U. S. citizen is the Man of 1937. In the last five months of the twelve the U. S. led, the world not forward toward prosperity but backward toward depression. However great was John L. Lewis' accomplishment, by year end he was in the position of every labor leader and every industrialist when business is receding: battening down hatches to ride out a storm...
When a person is hanged, the marks on the neck extend upward and Backward toward the point of suspension, because of the weight of the body. If the marks are horizontal, they show that the victim was not hanged but garroted, so that suicide is ruled out, no matter in what circumstances the body is found. In general, deaths by asphyxia are characterized by blueness (cyanosis) of the face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled...
...matter of intellectual discipline has a great deal to do with the question of the value of thinking. For it does not mean that teachers who are predominantly sound are dull, or backward because they are conservative. In every department of the University will be found professors who have led the parade in their field. It would be insulting to the average student to name them: they are legion. It is equally blind to claim that the faculty has been bred on "booklearning which destroys enthusiasm," when the ranks of every school in the University are filled with...
Smearing by Rights of Lefts and vice versa has for years been such a feature of French public life that Paris correspondents and their editors abroad leaned over backward on the story last week. Veteran Paris correspondents, usually proud to cable a deft summary supplemented with wise comment, suddenly crossed their fingers and transmitted verbatim the statement presently issued by the Minister of the Interior. The editors of the New York Times were among those who affirmed that "perplexing questions are not answered by the data available." Data supplied by Marx Dormoy...
...fool, he had neglected to secure himself a seat in time. Now it was too late. An usher ran after him, grabbed his arm and pointed to a placard reading "Reserved." There was a vain argument, futile pleading, stony refusal. Dejectedly our hero retraced his steps, with many a backward glance...