Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone to Washington ten months ago to do business before Government departments, had not yet been admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Said he last week: "When I go into a department, I always tell them to settle the matter on its merits and to bend over backward in view of my being secretary of the national committee. And they do lean over backward...
...Roosevelt, in his message to Congress, did not hesitate to say that the "reforms of the New Deal were here to stay," that "civilization could not go backward," and that a large number of his more important legislative measures must be permanent. By a majority of 5-4 the Supreme Court has approved a single feature of the great canon of emergency legislation; the personnel record of the court, the general surprise at Chief Justice Hughes' position, indicate that the majority hinges upon him. The minority opinion of Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, and van Devanter might have been written...
...matter-of-fact as the people it portrays, the story has its dramatic moments, and were it not for the fact that the author employs the time-shift with only half the ability of let us say Ford Madox Ford, which sweeps us from scene to scene and backward and forward, her novel would be comfortable to read...
...rush job, the Turkish Three-Year Plan is intended to lay a foundation for future industrialization rather than to achieve it in 1934. Under Dictator Kemal, as under Dictator Stalin, mass propaganda is rousing backward Turks toward new horizons. Typical is the vow which every Turkish school child must repeat daily...
...Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race, in which he consistently outran the horse. In 1898 he stumbled over a dog, broke his leg, thereafter coached at Yale, Maine and Ohio State, before settling at Michigan. Once able to jump 11 ft. backward, at 68 he could still...