Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Edward Bellamy, the author of "Looking Backward," will contribute to the March number of the North American Review a reply to General Francis A. Walker's criticism of his theories in the February Atlantic...
...third prize bronze medal; five mile open-entrance fee 50 cents, 1st prize pair gold inlaid skates, second prize pair gold inlaid skates, second prize silver cup, third prize pair American skates; 220 yards dash open-fee 50 cents, 1st prize Waltham silver watch, 2nd prize silver carving set; backward race open, no fee-1st prize split bamboo rod, 2nd prize pair opera glasses; figure contest, open, fee $1-1st prize gold medal, 2nd prize silver medal, 3rd prize bronze medal; mile championship of Massachusetts, fee $1-1st prize, silver medal, 2nd prize pair...
...quotations from the poet's idyll of the Moselle. General Francis A. Walker's contribution, entitled "Mr. Bellamy and the New Nationalist Party," is a serious paper exposing some fallacies of Mr. Bellamy. It is keen, critical, and impartial, and makes some telling points against the author of "Looking Backward...
...great a knack of getting ahead of the ball or 'off side.' Then two methods of play were started one being for the centre men to run claiming that no sooner was the ball in play than it could be picked up, and another to push the ball backward with the foot instead of kicking it through. Things had reached this point when the rule mentioned above was adopted in order to prevent the former practice. Here follows an excellent example of the effect of legislation upon the game. Had this rule been directed against the kicking back instead...