Word: backwardation
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Egan, in elaborating on several columns he has written since Saturday's game, hit sharply at what he called "the backward Harvard admissions policies...
...tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some faint sound, the Chinese touched the trigger of his burp gun. Main shot the prisoner-to-be instantly and regretfully with his .45, but the second sergeant rolled backward down the hill with an astounded gasp, slugs in his arm, leg and belly. After that the night was noisy with gunfire...
Last week, after years of such debate, a new hope rose for some of the backward Indies. In London, the Colonial Office announced that most of Britain's West Indian islands had agreed to federate. Next spring, delegates from the legislatures of Jamaica, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands will meet in London to draw up a charter. By the time they have settled on terms, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and continental British Guiana and British Honduras may be ready to join in a federation of all British possessions in the Caribbean...
...companies in 1938. The three nationalized companies-Patińo,* Hochschild, Aramayo-produce 72% of the country's tin. Though Bolivia now mines only 15% of the world's tin, it still accounts for virtually all that is produced in the Western Hemisphere. And tin is still backward Bolivia's one cash crop, providing 80% of the country's foreign exchange. Last week's decree set a tentative valuation on the expropriated properties of $21,750,000-barely a third of what the companies think their investments in Bolivia are worth...
Another limitation of the simple jet engine is under attack too: its lack of "propulsive efficiency" at subsonic speeds. When a jet plane is standing still on the ground, the gases shooting out of its tailpipe at 1,300 m.p.h. spend all their energy in pushing air backward; the propulsive efficiency is zero. When the plane takes off, and flies faster & faster, less & less of the energy is wasted on the air. More of it goes into pushing the plane forward; i.e., the propulsive efficiency increases...