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...What is needed today, it seems to me, is a deep conviction, which should amount almost to a religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...
...more. The National Football Rules Committee, meeting in wintry seclusion at Absecon, N. J., last week, voted a new provision which makes a fumbled ball recovered by the defensive side "dead" at the point of recovery. The new rule "will not apply in case of forward passing, nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore." The committee justified its change with the explanation that a fumble is the error of but one player, not the team, and the loss of the ball by fumble itself is equivalent...
...Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja or big Maharaja read his speech from a typewritten copy, and the perfect unanimity of the proceeding was an impressive tribute to what is called "the genius of Great Britain for governing Backward Peoples...
...general opinion among football coaches, it was said, was entirely favorable to the committee's decision. "The new rule," it was explained in a statement issued by the secretary, "will not apply in case of forward passing nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor will it apply to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore...
...market quotations. In bygone days, when bulls were not so fat and bears were not so lean, conservatives estimated that a stock which earned $10 a share should be selling at $100, or ten times its earnings-per-share. In recent years this ratio has been considered extremely backward. Thus, in March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings-per-share, and the "15X" formula has become generally accepted with regard to industrials. Meanwhile, however, during the November bull market, many a stock rose far beyond the "15X" valuation, reached a price...