Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs...
While in Africa, the Commission collected fine specimens of big game and some damaging facts about Britain's ''trusteeship'' of backward peoples. Example: Government provision of primary schools is so inadequate that of the 720,000 children between the ages of five and 15 in Uganda, only one-third attend school, and of this number more than five-sixths attend mission schools. The sun may never set on Britain's empire, but it has disgracefully few native minds to which the light of education penetrates...
...romantic tradition of the novel. As such it is not to be compared with Oedipus Rex (although most readers are likely to find it a good deal harder to lay down than Oedipus), but like Oedipus it is basically a horror story, and like Oedipus it unrolls forward and backward simultaneously, each new revelation of the past driving the story forward...
That they entered their wrath and their attack on an educational institution is highly unfortunate. Any unprejudiced analysis has always shown that Harvard leans over backward to shun official political relationships. To bellow that Harvard has a desire to rule Cambridge, and that therefore it must, like some naughty school boy, be expelled from the community, serves only to show the political hue of the picture. The council's cunning brush is attempting to swab Harvard with such brilliant and tawdry colors, that beside it Plan E may look dull, important, and anaemic on the ballot...
...Park (where the near-rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees); seven other public golf courses; 161 City tennis courts; 250 City playgrounds; 233 miles of motor parkways. Due to his efforts, Greater New York, long backward, has probably the biggest, most elaborate recreation facilities of any U. S. city, and many of them are self-supported by moderate fees for bathing, parking, charcoal at the fireplaces provided for picnickers.* Mr. Moses has long had in mind making a public promised land of Long Island...