Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaker Sam Rayburn, after matching barometers with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, announced that prospects looked good for a tax cut along about Jan. 1. For only $1 billion or so, Rayburn's Democrats thought, they could either increase individual exemptions by $100 or offer a personal tax credit...
...firm, careful hand that he used in bringing Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. from a snarled tangle of mining miscellany to a mighty corporation with holdings worth $250 million. As the man who shaped the Eisenhower economic policy, Humphrey is entitled to a full share of the credit for the nation's unprecedented prosperity...
...minor parties will also batter the entrenched Liberals. The strength of the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation has shrunk in an era of contentment and prosperity, seems unlikely to add many seats to the 22 it held in the last Parliament. The Social Credit party, a depression-born agrarian movement that turned right with prosperity, now controls the governments of Alberta and British Columbia, plans a major push in Eastern Canada this year to build up its Parliamentary bloc of 15. All of the opposition is encouraged by one Canadian political trend. Of the six provincial governments controlled by the Liberals...
...would be unjust to suggest that everything is wrong with the show. To its great credit, it presents Thelma Ritter, who plays what Time magazine would call "the great and good friend" of the barge skipper. A comedienne of absolutely the first caliber, she has brought to its ultimate perfection the characterization of the lovable shrew. Though some of her material might be funnier, her acting could scarcely be better...
...essay." In 1954 when the program began, only one student tried it (his special interest: a comparative theology study of Tillich and Maritain). Today there are ten. ¶ Last fall Iowa's Grinnell College started "four-three" program to permit certain students to earn a fourth credit for extra independent work done in special three-hour courses. Though neither professors nor students are entirely satisfied with the program, it at .least has forced the library to double the number of books it buys each year...