Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, F.D.R. wrote: "In some way I was a number of years ago given credit for getting a scoop from President Eliot in regard to the way he was going to vote in the autumn of 1900. The real man who got that scoop was Albert W. DeRoode, now a lawyer in New York City, and he should have the credit...
...Much Credit...
Eventually Roosevelt felt so frus- trated with the academics that he concentrated most of his energy on studying independently. Though he did not study history formally, and did almost no writing for course credit, he started work his senior year on a History of the American Navy in the War of 1812, which was published within three years after he graduated. He might have written a good thesis on the subject, but he seems to have preferred to work on it alone...
...protested her inability to answer their questions, the fact was that Vice President Nixon, Sherman Adams and other White House aides neither informed her of the real nature of Ike's illness nor consulted her on the abstrusely worded report in which Ike's doctors tactlessly took credit for being right in their "original diagnosis." After staving off suspicious newsmen until midafternoon, matronly, silver-haired Anne Wheaton was red-eyed; she quivered with strain when the medical report was finally released at her third press conference of the day. To the jampack in Hagerty's office...
Taxes & Loans. The credit for Sicily's renaissance goes largely to the island's autonomous regional parliament and to Domenico La Cavera, 41, the slim, dynamic president of Sicily's Confederation of Industry. Says La Cavera: "My heart beats with joy. I am vibrating with enthusiasm." He also vibrates with strong ideas about free enterprise and how to help it along. A peasant's son, La Cavera started out with a small cement plant, expanded it, then set out to see how U.S. industry operated. He returned from the U.S. convinced that Sicily should reject Italy...