Word: backwardation
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...believe TIME has erred. On Feb. 20, 1942, long before TIME mentioned "backward" birds, The Range Finder, Camp Callan publication, presented the "Oozlefinch," mascot of the Coast Artillery, which for years has flown backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes; and also because the bird is not interested in where it is going-it wants to know where in h- it came from...
Farm prices have stolen a backward march on Leon Henderson, have declined without waiting for a ceiling to be clamped on them. Wheat last week was down 15? a bushel from the 1942 high; corn, 5?; rye, 28/5 soybeans, 27?; cotton, 2?: a pound; eggs, 4? a dozen...
When Georgia-born Sociologist Odum began collecting facts at North Carolina 22 years ago, many Southerners took umbrage at any suggestion for improvement of the South's backward economy. Dr. Odum made no suggestions; he just went on laboriously piling up his facts. He turned up some whopping ones: e.g., with much of the richest soil in the U.S., the Southeast spent 7% of its gross income for commercial fertilizer, almost as much as it spent on education (it bought two-thirds of all the fertilizer used in the nation). Reason: its cash-crop, soil-consuming system (cotton...
...Harvard in order to complete requirements for a Harvard degree have, we believe, a just claim for auditing at will. This adjustment in an otherwise smoothly-running program would tend to put the University on a more normal full-time basis. The present system is definitely a step backward and a limitation of intellectual freedom...
...Lady. Bernadette Soubirous was born on a Jan. 7, which was the birth date also of Jeanne d'Arc. On Feb. 11, 1858, a backward, asthmatic girl of 14, she beheld, in a swine-fouled little grotto near Lourdes, a dainty, gay and ineffably dressed young lady who talked and gestured with her in the silence of her enchanted heart. During the next few weeks Bernadette saw her many times, though the lady was invisible to the increasing hundreds (Bernadette had talked) who gathered at the grotto...