Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the rehabilitation of the disabled soldier has been conducted by the best means available to the government. It is disappointing to have to believe that the men charged with so important a public duty should stood to petty politics and mud-slinging. If the institutions have really been backward in their methods, they should frankly concede it and proceed to improve themselves; for no educational institution is worthy of that name that is not willing to listen to suggestions. Col. Forbes, moreover, acts as if he were anxious to divert any attention from his own department, the Veterans' Bureau...
Germany knows what a war-ruined city is. Oppau lies in the dust of devastation--a ruin as complete as if the Kaiser's advancing army had gone over it with shot and shell and murderous shooting parties. A little bit of Flanders and Belgium has rolled backward across the Rhine. The explosion of the "new gas" which Germans are said to have been preparing was quite as sudden as was the descent of the German devestation upon Dinant and Louvain in 1914. Oppau is hoist with Germany's own petard...
...touch with Yale rowing, ever since the Yale-Cornell race. Far-reaching and very vital changes in the system are expected to result from the appointment of Mr. Corderry, changes both in the type of rowing and in the rigging of the Yale shells. Many considered it a step backward, for instance, when Mr. Nickalls reintroduced the thole-pin in the outriggers in place of the lock now in universal use in this country; his insistence on the flat slide has also been criticised...
...Unless the Yale players are mentally backward, they won't repeat the mistakes in judgment which have counted against them earlier this year...
...Stadium this year. The ubiquitous Keck, who tips the scales at a paltry 212 pounds, is faster than many an end. This "ring-tailed roarer and curly wolf" covered punts like a demon possessed, and when he hit the receiver, picked him up bodily and catapulted him five years backward. Fitzgeraid stood some wicked punishing in this way. On the defense Keck was the Gibraltar of the Nassau line. The Crimson ends couldn't put him out of the play; he always kept his stocky feet and managed somehow to bring down University runners on either side of the line...