Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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English 31: ". . . . But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurlbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ilk, if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
Nevertheless, the company's business turnover is exceptionally rapid. Armour & Co. pays cash to farmers for their livestock and produce, and gets its money back from its 500,000 customers in about two weeks. On its huge gross business, estimated at $800,000,000 for the present year, credit losses are remarkably small...
...Boston bar average half that amount. But there are shining rewards at the top of the profession! They attract all youths and sundry. Some, through sheer ability no matter what school they came from, will attain the goal. But many among them, if we may credit the dictum of the Boston lawyer here cited, will never spin the churn themselves, but ironically will greatly help others to win it. By reason of the incompetent advice which incompetent men among them will give, and by reason of the litigation which the petty attorney seeks always to foster, they will be constantly...
...might lead to Allied troops being mobilized across Germany to attack Russia; and that Germany would evade any Allied desire to impose such obligations upon her at Locarno, if she could. Meanwhile would not Minister Tchitcherin please be quiet, and accept for his country a 100 million gold mark credit which the Reich Cabinet had just rushed through in the form of a Russo-German trade treaty...
...Iowa Professors broadcast from WSUI. An enrollment fee of $2 is charged, $4 thereafter per semester hour of final credit granted. Thus a radio student can take, for $60 or so, a course that would cost a college attendant from $200 to $600. Last spring one Clifford Liddeen, in absentia in Texas, received his degree. This fall the University offers courses in: Early Iowa History, American Literature, Iowa Flora, English, and Elementary Psychology...