Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world in the face of common danger; for learning perforce to unleash bombs from nowhere, mines from nowhere, planes from nowhere in a land where every gesture is a tradition; for advancing national progress and a New Life in spite of centuries of worship and changelessness, all credit belongs to the Couple of the Year, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling Chiang...
...price from 15? to 8? per lb., the New Deal broke out a well-worn storm sail in the form of loans to cotton growers (TIME, Aug. 23). Hastily arranged just before Congress adjourned, the cotton-loan program was financed by Jesse Jones's RFC through the Commodity Credit Corp...
Princeton has a reputation for, among other things, good soccer teams. This year's is apparently no exception. With the loss of seven regulars from its 1936 champions, the Tigers have already three wins to their credit as against a single loss, and that only by a 4-3 score in their opener with the Crescent A. C., which numbered the New Jersey boys as its twenty-third consecutive victims...
...names of the authors will not be printed union specifically requested. There must be no bitterness no matter how cleverly put, in the limerick. Farfetched rhymes which add to the humor, and especially two-word rhymes or use of an extra-hard word will be given especial credit. PRIZE - WINNING LIMERICK...
...Furthermore, the Tammany Board of Estimate has consistently refused to permit the weeding from office of their political parasites, restoring in the face of La Guardia's explosive wrath sixty-four hirelings of no value to the community only in the last week. As for finances, the city's credit is at a higher level than at any time in a generation. The housing and other public projects to which the benevolent Democrat objects take the form of a series of new dwellings for the working population, as fine and practical examples of governmental paternalism as we have...