Word: backwardation
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...concludes true humor to be dead. Man's mind is drifting backward. Another age of slapstick is upon...
This would put nomination entirely in the hands of the party leaders and would tend to deprive the politically backward South of representation in Parliament...
...intervening commencements slip by with hardly a thought for his perennially expectant Alma Mater. Not so the twentieth. The reasons are fairly obvious. At forty-one or forty-two years of age even a human dynamo feels strongly the temptation to pause for breath and take a look backward. He discovers then a strong curiosity concerning his forgotten classmates. How do they look after twenty years. How much have they got? What do they know? It may be assumed that he has attained by now to what he considers a respectable position in life. Hence his vanity prompts...
...needful to separate the two. The most active men are not always the least thoughtful, or the most meditative backward in good works. Solitude is not essential to contemplation; the Greek philosophers were constantly engaged in teaching and disputation. For most men profound thought is stimulated both by contemplation and interchange of ideas, each in seasonable measure...
...gentle art of "cramming" knowledge into the heads of dull and backward students was developed to a high degree by the "Widow" Nolen. . . . He flourished largely because he was able to do what so many instructors could not do--present the substance of a course in an orderly and systematic manner. Tutoring is an old custom, and there will always be laggards or dullards who will turn to tutors for assistance. But if the dull and backward profit from a "boiled down", presentation of a subject, does it not follow that the brighter students would do likewise? As a matter...