Word: backwardation
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...Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a monkey again just for tonight...
...LAND THAT TIME FORGOT? Edgar Rice Burroughs?A. C. Mc-Clurg ($2.00). The author of the famed Tarzan tales of jungledom creates himself a new jungle in a "forgotten" island of the South Seas. The interest of his new book is that its jungle is a few million years backward in evolution. It contains a magnificent collection of carnivorous reptiles, saber-toothed tigers and examples of man in all stages of evolution? enough to make a museum curator green with envy if he did not already see red because of the liberties taken with science...
...question of the gold standard is more than merely an abstract topic for economists to debate. It vitally concerns the western silvermine owners, who have been far from backward in the past in "protecting their interests" in Washington. In 1896 many silver miners supported Bryan, not because they really feared mankind was being crucified on a cross of gold, but because his doctrines meant increased sales of the white metal...
...band struck up The Star Spangled Banner. Small flags rained down from the ceiling. Anna Case, famed singer, repeated the words of the anthem. Then everybody twisted his head around and looked backward while the official photograph was taken...
...beginning of Commencement Week is a particularly appropriate occasion on which to stop, for a moment, and cast a sentimental glance backward. The Senior, about to take a last bathetic farewell of all that has gone to make up his University Atmosphere for Four Long Years, may be pardoned if, for the moment, he counts himself educated, and gives to Alma Mater all the credit for Making Him What He is in regard to Culture and Intelligence...