Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mussolini is an amusing demagog. His oratory is chiefly interrogation. "What country do you love?" he cries. "Italy!" roar the Italians. "Who will die for Italy?" he booms. "We all will!" chorus the Italians. "Shall I go backward or forward?" he thunders. "Forward!" howls the mob. And Mussolini has gone forward.?Dr. Robert Michels of the University of Basle, contributing to the theme "Dictatorship v. Democracy in Europe...
...less accurately completed, as one hears the operator give the number to the called exchange. Opportunity for correction is there given. "Thank You" saves telephone users in the aggregate, thousands of hours annually. We Americans value highly our "Time". In your remarks about hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone. Are we backward with Telephoto, Television and all? Since telephone development in America is indisputably far ahead, is it not safe to presume that...
...wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable, the Jenkins invention promised to be even more effective than the wheel brakes already in use on land planes. Wheel brakes can be thrown out of commission by a heavy landing. The reversible-blade brake will function as long as the motor runs...
...What do we see in China today? Nothing but maladministration, treachery, bribery, and wars. China is suffering more than anything else from too many rotten generals. They are everywhere, fighting and marching, backward and forward-not for China, but for their own personal gain...
Hundreds of passersby, stopping to crane their necks backward at Mr. Kelly, loitered a moment longer to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly...