Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hockey fans, like the game they yell at, are not polite. All season in Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
...pressed for lowering of tariffs, abolition of quantitative restrictions (i.e., fixing of how much of certain goods a nation could buy or sell), the breakup of tight little barter and preference blocs. .But the "backward" nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America insisted that, unless their fledgling industries were protected by fences, they would forever remain merely cheap sources of bananas, coffee or jute for the more highly industrialized nations. The delegates of these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection...
...Auto Workers completely conveyed the integrity of his stance to an audience that might have been hostile: members of Advanced Management and Labor Policy Seminars together with curious Business School onlookers. They peppered Reuther with questions on specific petty gimmicks of UAW policy. The Red Head simply cocked jauntily backward and the Redhead triumphantly established a controlling rapport. "Walter's learned not to get mad at them," remarked a Nieman Fellow who has long covered labor in the Midwest...
...this so largely so, and what has Harvard done about it? The College's reaction in 1940 was based on the faulty premise that it was the duller and more backward students who needed help. For that purpose it set up the Bureau of Study Counsel, while in fact the students who went to tutors, and all others who cram both then and now, are perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them...
...hero of Slumberland or of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A station executive thought it was a fine name because, spelled backward, it is "omen." It is also the Latin word for "nobody...