Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
...United States Government has . . . taken a step backward into the darkness of the Middle Ages," snapped crusty old Editor Jacob Seibert last week in his Commercial & Financial Chronicle, referring to the decision to pay Government gold bond interest in paper dollars. But U. S. Business took a big step forward. Chart-watchers throughout the land happily eyed certain thick black indexes creeping slowly above the line of May 1932. For the first time in four long years of Depression, they said, U. S. Business was definitely better than it had been twelve months before. Automobile production for the third successive...
...almost mask-like features brushed her hair, occasionally glancing at the child, then to a corner where an elderly man, sitting on a crummy stool, whittled whistlewood: His salt worn cheeks, drawn closely together below two unevenly coloured eyes resembling niches in the side of a chameleon, suddenly moved backward; uneven and sinisterly pointed teeth protruded. His uncovered muscular arms turned with his body as he lowered his head. Two calloused hands held a large axe, and the man rose. The same well was heard again, coming from the child. As the axe moved across the room, the Vagabond thought...
...additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. "I regard existing conflicts between four of our sister republics," said he, "as a backward step...
...from the ranks. He got his first promotion (to sergeant) in 1901 when he jumped from a ferryboat into Hell Gate Channel, rescued two drowning men. During his ten-year supervision of Manhattan's theatre district, Broadway has called him its "toughest" inspector, "so straight he bends over backward...