Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judging from other recent expressions of politicals and observers, there are not a few Democrats who credit Senator Reed with having spoken with the owl's wisdom...
...Athens, Foreign Minister Rouplos formally denied the existence of any such pact. However "President" (Dictator) Pangalos of Greece is an avowed arch-militarist and is known to be purchasing warships and arms to the utmost limit of the nation's credit...
...community. . . . The only circumstances under which, in a country with the resources, the resiliency and the basic elements of ours, a temporary descent into the cyclone cellar becomes warranted are-leaving aside grave foreign complications- either manifestations of stark and persistent overproduction or overtrading, the advent of a major credit disturbance, or acute monetary stringency. None of these circumstances exists today or is even remotely likely to occur...
Illiteracy figures as quoted in the current "World's Work" credit Germany with the lowest proportion of illiterates in her population with the figure of five hundredths of one percent. Switzerland, Great Britain, United States, and France follow in order, the last named housing a population fourteen percent illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine...
...Aztecs, who received most of the credit in the popular mind for the achievements on cultural lines in Mexico, were very late arrivals on the scene. It was not until 1325 that they reached the shores of that lake on an island in which they were later to build their capital...