Word: backwardation
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...Council of Reason." How long we have been going backward Mr. Lewis does not say. But in apportioning the blame, he goes back only to June 1937. Since then: ". . . Neither industry nor Government has come forth with constructive proposals designed to meet the problems of the depression. The Federal Congress, lacking adequate or competent leadership . . . has failed to devise or enact a single statute that would cause a glimmer of hope to penetrate the minds of millions of despairing Americans...
...Roslyn's fourth-grade children ranged from 7 to 16 in age. Now fewer children are retarded. Instead of keeping backward pupils with younger children, Roslyn's schools promote them, give them coaching in their weak subjects...
Mexico is backward and primitive, but Mexican Chavez is the most futuristically minded of contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...
...closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings in that same city 245 years...
...Backward. Spiritual climax of the Washington gathering was a communion service in the Cathedral, conducted by Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean Noble Cilley Powell and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, to which believers of all faiths were invited. Such a service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Oxford Conference last summer, with the stipulation that it did not set a precedent. To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger. To them this celebration is no mere Lord's Supper or fellowship meal; it is a sacrificial act performed by a priest...