Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the thralldom to their faculties, by insisting that new appointments, and promotions as well shall depend primarily upon ability to impart knowledge and interest to young people. This and not stiffer entrance requirements, is the way to increase the number of graduates who will throughout their lives do credit to their Alma Mater...
...Russian harvest. Now let us make a prophecy . . I foretold that Russian money would be stabilized sooner than in any of the other countries of Europe. Now I say that if Russia has good harvests coming two years in succession her wealth will be greater than the greatest credit she might obtain abroad...
This situation has resulted essentially from the present position of the U. S. as a creditor nation and our apparently inexhaustible supplies of gold credit in our banking establishments. Always before, lack of banking accommodations has acted as a brake upon overdevelopment of business activity. While frequently painful in application, this brake nevertheless was fundamentally salutary. Now the brake has apparently been removed, except in so far as the Reserve System can enforce such a policy irrespective of the gold hoard in its vaults...
...Merry Widow. Love's riotous comedy supreme gave Director Erich von Stroheim a thousand opportunities to present the tintinnabulating toe, the flirting knee. Much to his credit, he seized only the hundred best, and between times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...
...interesting sidelight on easy existing credit conditions is afforded by the firm's part payment arrangements on such articles as furniture, radio sets, pianos, household utensils and even complete heating plants...