Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be interesting to see, in later volumes, how much credit Roosevelt's New Deal gets for saving the nation, and how the villainous businessman finally acquired enough vision to contribute his mite to an expanding economy. In the meantime many a reader will wish that Author Schlesinger would allow a remarkable and memorable American to be judged on his own great merits and great faults, without loading the historian's dice in his favor...
...position on the Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment of the James Lecturer, Oppenheimer. I could not avoid the conclusion that the CRIMSON was, in this instance, trying...
HELP loans will bear interest one-half per cent in excess of the "prime rate" in Boston at the time that the loan is made. In Boston at present the "prime rate," that paid by the biggest borrowers with the best credit, is four per cent...
...cope with the best the Lions can offer in any event. Top Coloumbia swimmer is sophomore Dick Stepcick, whose unbeaten record this year owes much to a well-timed illness during the week when the Lions met Yale. However, Crimson captain Chouteau Dyer, with considerably faster times to his credit than Stepeick, should be more than a match for his opponent at either 50 or 100 yards...
...step from presenting Gilbert and Sullivan to presenting opera is a difficult and admirable one, and the Student Fellowship at the local Congregational Church deserves full credit for a generally successful production of A Tree on the Plains. For the folk opera, librettist Paul Horgan has fashioned a somewhat naive but effective story about farmers in the American Southwest, and the music by Ernst Bacon is simple, combining hymntunes, folk and popular styles into a pleasant conglomeration...