Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the completion of the new gymnasium near at hand providing vastly increased facilities for undergraduate indoor sports, a backward glance draws attention to the disposition of the old Hemenway gymnasium. For although this building has been obviously inadequate to the demand, there are numerous opportunities for use, of primary interest to the great body of graduate students, whose heritage in part it will soon become...
...incorporated as E. R. Squibb & Sons. Since then there has been another big boom for medicaments, the World War, which won the company not only profit but an award from the U. S. for distinguished service. That things have not been going backward since the war is shown by the fact that the company's net profits have steadily increased and more than doubled in the last four years...
...work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must...
Moton. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute for Negroes, made a speech about race relations. His points: Negroes are not inferior to whites, but more backward. They want civic equality, not intermarriage. "The Negro and the white can live together side by side in amity, if both are educated...
...product is bananas. In western Guatemala and throughout Salvador the principal product is coffee. A large percentage of the population of both Guatemala and Salvador is Indian or half-breed and, though Guatemala City has been called the Paris of America, neither country can well escape being classed among backward nations...