Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the tariff] would need amplifiers to make their whispers heard. Such states as Arizona, South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi etc. do not pay enough toward the upkeep of the government to cover the costs of collection, and states like Pennsylvania, hamstrung as they are by adverse legislation, support these backward commonwealths and provide them with their good roads, post offices, river improvements and other federal aid, figuratively on a golden platter...
Lobbyist Grundy later added to his list of "backward commonwealths": Montana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina. Nebraska ''is pretty bad"; Alabama "has been doing pretty well of late"; Kansas "is not as good...
...eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this operation depends upon the power of the pack as a whole to shove hard, and upon the footwork in getting the ball back...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has furnished the university with many escapes from the academic world. It has led us from Wild West Nebraska to Central Asia, from the most backward part of Mexico to the most advanced section of Hollywood. Except for a musical comedy, its more recent productions have been off-center to the border of insanity; the tortured hero of "Hassan" shared with the disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest...
Voohnmad Sirs: Surely the signature to the enclosed is ficticious. Spell it backward and consider the result in connection witht he context of the letter. It cannot be merely a coincidence. It smacks of the recent Harvard hymn. I hope you didn't print it knowingly. M. L. HAVEY New York City...