Word: credite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in 1928-29 Goalie George Hainsworth of the Montreal Canadiens made a fabulous big-league record. In a 44-game season, he had 22 shutouts to his credit, had only 43 goals scored against him. Even though nowhere near that mark, a goalie may still be great...
...Bernarr Macfadden's New York Daily Investment News was only five months old, but wisdom issued from its presses. It advised its readers: "Get out of the market, losses or no losses." The eternal credit that it gained by that advice did not save it from the hard times which descended upon it and Wall Street's three other financial dailies.* Not until 1935 did Mr. Macfadden heed his own good advice by selling the Investment News. Last week his successor, Haydock ("Eternal Optimist") Miller, followed Macfadden's precept and example by bowing the Investment News...
...from us to decry the immense popularity which Wagner has enjoyed, during the last few years. The great voice of Mme. Kirsten Flagstad is perfectly adapted to interpret such roles as Brunnhilde and Isolde; and it is largely to the Norwegian soprano's credit that Wagner has zoomed to the heights of favor in this country. Proof that Boston is still Wagnerian minded is demonstrated by the fact that already the seats for "Tristan," "Parsifal,"and "Lohengrin" are completely sold...
Like William James, Professor Lake complains of the worship of degrees, and very rightly. The taking of courses for credit, the pursuit of degrees and titles for themselves, has been long recognized as one of the worst features of American Education from Normal School up. Every teacher knows how general and futile cramming for an examination is, and that too few students remember anything significant about the courses they took...
Nevertheless, whatever happens to Captain Willie Thomas and his mates tonight, they have the distinction of bringing to Dartmouth its first championship won in regular season play, a new record of twenty victories this season, another record of losing only one non-league contest, and the credit of finishing the season successfully despite losses by injury, scholarship, and voluntary retirement...