Word: backwardation
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...main advantage over a straight single wing lies in the position of the wingback, who is moved back even with the other runners, instead of being just a step behind the line of scrimmage. This change is essential to the Harlow system, for it saves fleet wingbacks the backward steps they would have to take in the other formation...
...students learned something besides a language. Said Coed Tillie Jensen: "What [the French] want is to be Canadians. [We] were surprised to see how much alike we are." Said Helen Gilmour: "From what we had read and heard we believed the French-Canadians were ignorant, backward, distrustful, obstinately teaching their big families to nurse a resentful feeling that they were treated by the English as a conquered people. We found they are neither ignorant nor backward, but they cling to their traditions as we revere our own. ... I felt among friends. . . . We found we are all human beings, with much...
...years after the war," continued Finer, "we must send men into the backward regions of the earth, as in Chile recently, to transfer skills to the people so that they may use them independently. Skill is the one thing you can give away without losing it yourself. And the net result will make loans to these countries good long-view investments, since new prosperity to the countries being transformed will mean added prosperity to the already industrialized nations experiencing an employment spurt in supplying the implements for the transformation...
...going backward rather than forward...
...quota), in an endeavor to protect the 1,500,000,000 people of those nations against slumps caused by a temporary shortage of foreign exchange. The Bank would make available, under most careful safeguards, a great pool of money for the reconstruction or physical improvement of war-damaged or backward areas. For detailed de scription of the two proposed institutions, see below...