Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significance lies, not especially in a general distrust of European government bonds, but rather in the spreading reluctance of chattel and security holders against expanding their credit obligations. In accordance with this picture, loans and discounts of Federal Reserve member banks continued to decline...
...strong Freshman nine will also face stiff competition today when it clashes with the Crusader first-year squad. The visitors have a 6 to 1 triumph over the Exeter diamond squad to their credit. Two days after bowing to Holy Cross, the same school boy team handed the Freshman a 9 to 8 beating to spoil a record of six straight wins and no defeats. Mooney will probably take up the pitching burden for the visitors, while either Ketchum, Whitemore, or Malley, may be called on to puzzle the Worcester batsmen. The Crimson batting order will probably line up with...
Retort. Chancellor Churchill defended himself roundly: "Betting is certainly an optional luxury and therefore a fit object for taxation. ... It is estimated that £6,000,000 per year may be derived from this source. . . . The proposed tax does not alter the legality of betting. . . . Credit and racecourse betting are legal, while street betting is illegal?although in practice everyone can bet with impunity. In that sense, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. . . . The proposed tax is but a recognition of a condition of so-called vice from which the Exchequer has already received...
...Does anyone suppose a backer who has only to telephone a wager with the full sanction of the law to his credit bookmaker, will, for the sake of avoiding a shortening of the odds equal to a shilling in the pound, wander around in the districts of some manufacturing town looking for a mysterious individual into whose hands he might surreptitiously slip half a crown...
...clean-up batter of no mean efficacy, for in eleven trips to the plate he has slashed out no less than seven hits of assorted sizes. Either Crowley or Beach will toe the rubber against the Crimson this afternoon, the latter having the only Springfield verdict to his credit...