Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what part of the ice to use, instructed her to keep her beady toque straight on her head. Attached to her dress, Sonja Henje had a rabbit's foot which she did not need. Her performance-a Paulsen, a spreadeagle, a Lutz jump, a Jackson Haynes spin, a backward sweep to the finish-was less original than polished and assured, but it caused 8,000 spectators (one of whom paid a speculator $60 for two tickets) to agree with the judges when she won the championship...
...Rhoads was not obliged to leave his researches in Manhattan. But that, of course, did not terminate the agitation which was ricocheting throughout Porto Rico, an agitation typical of the prejudice with which the Foundation is obliged to contend in many backward countries...
...insist that the boxers only box for a certain number of days before each contest and insist that they be further handicapped by having one hand tied behind them during each fight? Our swimmers! Horrors! I hear that they are swimming during the summer. This is certainly a step backward, and they should be forbidden to swim except during the College swimming season. Our baseball team would be sufficiently handicapped if its practice were limited to three days before each game and if it were forced to play with an indoor baseball. I question if the great reformer whose editorials...
Premier Pierre Laval of France showed friends a copy of TIME with its story about him as "man of the year" (TIME, Jan. 4). When he proudly pointed out the observation that his surname spells itself backward, Leon Noel, new head of the Sûreté Générale, cried: "I'll double you. Chief...
...been making in small quantities since 1928, Errett Cord launched another car in late 1929, longer, lower, racier than his first. Expensive and finely engineered, with the driving power in the front wheels, it was named after himself. The Cord, jokes the automobile industry, is just an Auburn running backward. But Errett Cord, the industry admits, is still a Cord running forward. At the Show last week was to be seen a new Auburn V-Twelve with at least one exclusive device novel to the industry? a dual ratio rear axle operated from the dashboard. From...