Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world of change, they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...
Commercially Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom...
...hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime...
...American communications are 1) lack of capital; 2) lack of initiative, and 3) lack of imagination. Notoriously well-supplied with all three of these desirable attributes are U. S. communication companies. An enterprising executive, therefore, might well ask himself this question: Why should my company not invade this deplorably backward continent, consolidate its scattered, ineffective companies, modernize its lines, link its capitals...
Persons traveling to Siam, Cochin-China, China, and Iraq must still beware cholera; along West Africa yellow fever; in backward Europe typhus; everywhere smallpox...