Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 3 issue. Medicine-"Diabetics no longer die of Diabetes because Canadian Investigators isolated insulin from the pancreas." This is far from true, as a glance at any mortality table will show! While Banting and his co-workers deserve the highest credit for their discovery, unfortunately people do still die of Diabetes: in fact (you can check me if I err, when you look up the yearly mortality rates), there were more deaths three and four years after the discovery of insulin, than in the preceding years...
Secretary Hull, after fresh talks with President Roosevelt, tried to inject an idea that the Conference should grapple with "price levels, credit policy, innumerable prohibitions and restrictions strangling mutually profitable trade transactions, retaliation and countless other war-breeding trade practices and methods." The steering committee, cold to this proposal, began to discuss adjourning the Conference on July 26 "for at least two months" but were halted by a fresh emotional plea from Mr. Hull. "I do not see," cried he to correspondents, "how the Conference statesmen can go home to their starving people and admit they have failed to achieve...
Each section carries some 175 students, mostly young women, who get three hours college credit for studying geography, history, biology or journalism. The college is usually on the road by 6 a. m.. travels about 200 mi. per day. sandwiches lectures in whenever convenient. Each trip lasts seven weeks, costs $174 per person...
...banks, commercial banks and building & loan associations. Last week New York State mutual savings banks, which hold more than one-half of the $10,000,000,000 of U. S. mutual deposits, went Mr. Duncan's notion of mutuality one better when they formed for themselves two central credit reservoirs and brought in the U. S. Government as a partner...
...files of the Summer School like a rare bird's egg, with his collar dampened as much as his ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling in some old pasture, climbing a hill, or floating down some tree-lined river in a canoe. Learning is sensitive...