Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has taken a bold step, but whether the step is forward or backward is a question. According to President Conant, the intention is to make drastic reductions in expenses for athletics and at the same time to build up an endowment fund to lessen the oft-decried commercialization of sport. The first is possible, but hardly desirable, the second desirable, but hardly possible...
...greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like a man shot, backward and high in the air, away from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled my chest and almost suffocated me. For I am afraid of rattlesnakes. Time and again today a rider got down from his horse and bat one to death with...
...place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk backward nine steps and forward nine steps, cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger, historian of the Columbus Genealogical Society, trailing the Sells family back through the ages in genealogical libraries in Chicago, Washington and New York, solemnly announced that she had tracked it down to Adam. Her course (going backward): Rhode Island's Roger Williams, Britain's Plantagenets, 21 generations of Scottish kings, 19 centuries of Irish kings, Egypt's Pharaoh Nectonidus; Judah's Zedekiah, Israel's David, Enos, Seth and thus (4,000 B.C.) Adam...
...provision of N. R. A. at stake is no minor portion of the recovery legislation. True, that insistence on the right of labor to organize in non-company unions may not be as important to business revival as certain other measures. Nevertheless, it would be a distinct step backward in our progressive legislation if labor is to be abandoned to the mercies of company unionism...