Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Globule was a backward...
...tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit to Arms and the Man, a Shavian drama which quite baselessly represents the Bulgarians as a backward, bathless, totally uncultured people. For one night, in honor of the jilted Tsar of the Bulgars, the scene of Arms and the Man was announced to be laid in Albania...
...degree got her a position on the staff of the city's Psychiatric Clinic, first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition...
Englishmen, in the light of American progress, are considered notoriously backward. Various exaggerated accounts are wafted across the Atlantic concerning the tea hour in business offices and regulation of theatre-program jokes. With this opinion firmly in mind, the average American notes with great amusement the news from London that the Times is to make a radical departure in the direction of human interest and, owing to the increasing popularity of the cross-word puzzle, will include one such feature daily in its pages, in addition to the usual chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns...
Subterranean Garden. Squeezing through tunnels that nearly balked both forward and backward progress, pausing a minute for a breath of damp air, peering into obscurity ahead, went Leo McGavic and Cecil Cutliff, guides, inching their way through the nether tortuosities of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. About a mile and a half from where Floyd Collins died (TIME, June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case...