Word: backwardation
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...debate with two Canadians opened the season for the Harvard Debating Council last night when they discussed the question, "Resolved, That so-called advanced nations should leave so-called backward nations to work out their own political and economic salvation...
...debate Monday will be on the subject, "Resolved, that so-called advanced nations should leave so-called advanced nations should leave so-called backward nations to work out their own political and economic salvation". The Canadian team has the negative side of this question...
...essence, this was the keynote of Britain's Victoria more than half a century ago. The great Queen, with her pride in British valor and her joy that backward peoples should have the benefit of British rule, has a superficially different but basically similar counterpart in the Dictator of 1935, with his rousing trumps to Fascist valor and his real conviction that Ethiopians are savages who can properly be brought under Italian rule...
...Berkeley, a Santa Clara back named Joe Kelley somehow achieved a punt that went backward over his own head. California capitalized...
Sacha went to twelve schools, got in trouble at all of them, was generally considered backward. He never got out of the first form. At his last school, the master wanted to expel him, could not because the 17-year-old boy had not been at home or at school for five days. His first attempt to sow wild oats was frustrated. When he picked up a dancer at the Moulin-Rouge, she discovered he was Lucien Guitry's son, gave him a good talking-to, took him back to school, standing by to see that...