Word: backwardation
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...place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk backward nine steps and forward nine steps, cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger, historian of the Columbus Genealogical Society, trailing the Sells family back through the ages in genealogical libraries in Chicago, Washington and New York, solemnly announced that she had tracked it down to Adam. Her course (going backward): Rhode Island's Roger Williams, Britain's Plantagenets, 21 generations of Scottish kings, 19 centuries of Irish kings, Egypt's Pharaoh Nectonidus; Judah's Zedekiah, Israel's David, Enos, Seth and thus (4,000 B.C.) Adam...
...Working backward from volume three of his series, which was written several years ago, Professor Morison's current work will be the first book of the series. Some time later one is led to expect, volume two, which will also be volume three, will come into print...
...provision of N. R. A. at stake is no minor portion of the recovery legislation. True, that insistence on the right of labor to organize in non-company unions may not be as important to business revival as certain other measures. Nevertheless, it would be a distinct step backward in our progressive legislation if labor is to be abandoned to the mercies of company unionism...
...long as NRA exists they sooner or later may win the right to write their own ticket for the complete unionization of industry. If NRA expires that source of hope expires with it. To them NRA may be no forward step but the liquidation of NRA would be a backward step which they could not forgive...