Word: backwardation
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...matter of intellectual discipline has a great deal to do with the question of the value of thinking. For it does not mean that teachers who are predominantly sound are dull, or backward because they are conservative. In every department of the University will be found professors who have led the parade in their field. It would be insulting to the average student to name them: they are legion. It is equally blind to claim that the faculty has been bred on "booklearning which destroys enthusiasm," when the ranks of every school in the University are filled with...
Smearing by Rights of Lefts and vice versa has for years been such a feature of French public life that Paris correspondents and their editors abroad leaned over backward on the story last week. Veteran Paris correspondents, usually proud to cable a deft summary supplemented with wise comment, suddenly crossed their fingers and transmitted verbatim the statement presently issued by the Minister of the Interior. The editors of the New York Times were among those who affirmed that "perplexing questions are not answered by the data available." Data supplied by Marx Dormoy...
...fool, he had neglected to secure himself a seat in time. Now it was too late. An usher ran after him, grabbed his arm and pointed to a placard reading "Reserved." There was a vain argument, futile pleading, stony refusal. Dejectedly our hero retraced his steps, with many a backward glance...
...society's shield: a button bearing a top hat with U. S. A. on the crown and a cane and gloves rampant on a blue field. Its slogan: "He who walks backward never stubs...
...Church of the Plymouth Brethren has repeatedly split over the question of baptism: whether it should be in running water or calm, forward or backward, with one plunge or three...