Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete liquor cabinet. . . . Dashboards are more complicated than ever, with altimeters popular. . . . Much chromium is used on many cars. Some gold and silver plating and solid bronze are used. . . . Metal tire covers are prominent. . . . Radically modern for Brewster was a Rolls-Royce body with everything, including doors, slanting sharply backward. This Rolls-Royce cost $21,750, was the most expensive car. Next was an $18,600 Isotta. . . . Adjustable "Pullman" seats were in evidence. . . . Rugs, lap robes and pillows (some of lambskin) blended with upholstery. . . . Some sport phaetons have a duplicate dashboard for rear-seat riders. . . . Exhibitors were hopeful Hollywood cinemastars...
Devoted Belgians, grateful again to their able king, recalled with pride that their royal family is the only one in Europe whose members are careless of photographers. King Albert's straddle and the remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription last winter are two examples. Recently their daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, raised one royal leg high over the side of an Italian speedster, in order to climb out. heedless of the fact that lenses were looking...
Northfield's purpose is twofold: it provides an education for the worthy indigent, it supplements the public school facilities of backward communities. Each member of the community works some part of each day, earns 64% of his or her keep. Thus when Arthur Curtiss James gave Mount Hermon a gymnasium not long ago, the inmates turned out and filled, graded, drained, seeded a playing field which would have cost...
...gradually disappearing as the Eskimos build neat wooden houses to take their place. Flowers are being cultivated-think of that in Greenland! Some of the Eskimo women are becoming interested in window boxes. During the summer, I can tell you, they make a brave, bright show!" Not so backward as many people suppose, the Eskimos of Greenland publish two newspapers (monthlies) in Eskimo...
...American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...