Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lead-the high-water mark being 20 of 42 paragraphs quoted in the Digest for March 14, 1925, as the inclosed reprint of the Digest page will show. . , .-There is no competition between paragraphers; but since Mr. Quillen leads the field, we think he should be given proper credit in TIME...
...agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This is curious because it reveals in himself a refinement of the very vice he has set out to reform-boasting. Nor does he demonstrate that the "new" virtue is wisdom and not a surface application of mass education, theory...
...What may redeem Tom is his own first sentence, the generalization: "All men are blowhards." But how far removed from Huck's amiable unmorality is all this Tom-talk of moral credit. How strange that two products of like environments should see things so differently in retrospect. How odd that Huck the outcast should write with such contentment while Tom the respected citizen has loathing in his memory and joy, strident because vicarious, only in perfections yet to be. Both the books are written for middle-aging people. Who shall say which is wiser...
...Chevalier '29 and W. B. Locke '27 of the University team tied for 'second individual honors with 2 1-2 games apiece to their credit, while Spackman of Princeton finished with a clean score. The other two members of the Crimson team were B. J. Raines '28 and H. S. Flashman...
...major attainments as statesmen, the Premier and eight of his ministers have published books of which France has no call to feel ashamed. Premier Poincaré and Minister of Justice Barthou have made history and then clapped it in scholarly fashion between covers. Foreign Minister Briand has to his credit an authoritative volume on the separation of Church and State. Books of travel, natural history and biography flow incessantly from the pen of Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier has attained moderate sale in the U. S.* Minister of Public Works Tardieu is known for his America in Arms...