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...that extended the British realm, the Colonial Office minded the less dramatic chores of the empire. It set up the famed London School of Tropical Medicine, waged successful wars against malaria and the tsetse fly. Under its direction, Britain became the first modern nation to extend developmental aid to backward areas of the world, and its officers helped train a substantial segment of the world in methods of administering government and running essential health, educational and financial services...
...favorite butt of early TIME baiters was the distinctive and mannered style in which the magazine was written during its formative years. In a famous 1936 New Yorker parody, the late Wolcott Gibbs caricatured that style in the classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that...
...seeds of hatred are planted deep in Nigeria. Independence from Britain in 1960 left it divided into three mutually suspicious regions - separated tribally, politically and religiously. Five years of rule by the vast but backward Moslem North only made things worse, and by the time a military coup threw the Northerners out of power eight months ago, Nigeria had all but turned ungovernable. "This is more difficult than the Congo," admitted Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, who in herited the mess...
...album's five successes are slick, mellifluous glances backward from a boy-girl breakup, "Most Likely You Go Your Way," and "One of Us Must Know." Like their ancestor from Opus 4, "It Ain't Me, Babe," these should yield the popular idiom a ripe harvest of epigrams...
...Under such conditions, how could an engine in orbit be restarted for a flight to the moon? Engineers speculated that if an Apollo vehicle were accelerated slightly, the inertia of the liquid hydrogen would force it toward the bottom of the tank. To provide that acceleration, they installed controllable, backward-pointing vents at the top of the SIV B's fuel tanks. They hoped that the gases gradually produced by the evaporating liquid fuel and oxidizer could be released into space to provide slight thrust and acceleration...