Word: backwardation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about the city, ourselves, or anything else. Representatives of our Educational and Club Bureaus will be on hand to talk to teachers and club people, and on the mezzanine is a quiet reading room where anyone interested can find bound volumes of all our magazines available for any "looking backward" he may want...
Keenly aware of the distrust with which it is regarded throughout Central America, the United Fruit Co. leans over backward to keep the Zamorano school above suspicion. It has announced that it will not employ the graduates in its plantations. The school does not teach banana culture, admits no students because of political connections, markets no surplus produce for fear of being accused of exploiting the students' labor. Said one relieved staff member, long a United Fruit employe: "We feel as pure as missionaries here...
...March of Time, with Professor Richards' assistance, is producing a series of four shorts on Basic English which will be used for foreigners learning the language as well as backward readers. A new experiment in education, these pictures emphasized audience participation, with spectators shouting the words back at the screen actors...
Hitherto Russian influence had operated most effectively in the backward regions of Europe and Asia. But, as a result of World War II, Russian influence was marching into political power in Italy and France, would soon close in on Austria and a large part of Germany. There was one way in which the western nations, for whom even an economically secure life without political liberty was not worth living, could meet this challenge-by freeing themselves from want, fear and suffering while remaining free. The history of the next 20 or 30 years would report their success or failure...
...Condition of the Working Classes in England, Communist Founding Father Friedrich Engels lamented that the English workers were so backward that they had never learned to conspire...