Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principle, handball dates from the first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly...
...sells. He does not merely dump airplanes for a price, but first makes sure that they can be used and comfortably paid for. For small lines, which do not always know what is best for them, he sends in men to analyze routes, cargo business and profits. Since his credit is better than that of many small lines, and "he can pay off his big purchases as he receives payments for his sales, he can give airlines credit terms that many would not get themselves. Equally important, he is willing to accept almost anything that flies as a trade...
...intellectual history of China and Japan will be taken up in History 184a. A Junior Tutorial for Credit has been added to the area of History of Science and Learning, as has History of Science 115, a half course in "Medieval Philosophy and Science." The new catalogue also has a graduate course in "The Development of Biological Thought...
...Economics Department has also instituted a Junior Tutorial for Credit, Economics 98, to replace the Junior Honors Course, Economics 100. Four other Economics courses have been dropper from the undergraduate section of the catalogue. Economics 109 and 151, Economic Aspects of Population and Public Finance, respectively, will not be given this year; and Economics 111b and 113b, courses which were not given this year, but which were to be next year, do not appear in the new catalogue...
Juniors concentrating in Government may now take Government 98, Tutorial for Credit, if they are candidates for honors...