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Word: credited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first defeat of the season for the Crimson poloists. With one defeat and three victories to their credit they stand tied with the Optimists, with whom the play off for the Indoor Polo League Championship will take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RIDERS DOWNED BY OPTIMISTS SATURDAY | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...great luxurious warmth of imagination. If it becomes advantageous again to parade abroad the fruits of English culture, our patriot propagandists, looking round for modern poetic tragedy of English birth with which to impress neutrals, will not be forced to fall back on "Salome". "Hassan" will do us credit and far more credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HASSAN" ANNOUNCED AS SPRING PLAY OF THE H-D-C | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Another suggestion that I would make is that the candidates on the ballots be reduced to the smallest possible number. If the field is so broad and unrestricted that the winner has less than half the votes to his credit, the result is not very convincing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOVERNOR FULLER APPROVES POLL OF UNIVERSITY MEN | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...prepared', but with hardly the beginnings of an education. Contrasted with the students in English and Continental secondary schools, they must be rated, age for age, markedly inferior. There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system. Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled--'credititis', the itch for credits points, units, and semester hours. We are in the midst of a generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means more than anything else. Educationally we are a nation of credit hunters and degree worshippers. Studies are considered mere payments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN SCHOOLS FLAYED BY HOLMES | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...commuted to "life." Nine months ago he was pardoned and released from Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary, after an exemplary term during which he had made himself a master carver and inlay worker. He had patented tricks of his own in woodworking and had a $50,000 bank credit (royalties) awaiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Factory | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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