Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This student who so lightly tossed away the credit for his course belongs in a class by himself. Why he came to college need never be asked. It was not for a bit of parchment inscribed in Latin, which probably he could not read. It was not for the privilege of writing "A.B." after his name, in that manner which often indicates, not only that he who does it owns a sheepskin, but also is himself, a "sheepshead...
...party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague to withdraw the entire speech...
...journalist was emboldened to remark that Russia could not pay her debts without first obtaining a loan. M. Herbette rejoined: "The recognition of her debts would help Russia to reëstablish her credit...
...manager reflects most of the merriment. This manager and his deplorably dense lightweight are abruptly added to the menial quota of a haughty home on Fifth Avenue. They fall in love with others of the servants; they stir up a resounding second-act fight that would do credit to any picture play; they win the love match and the lightweight championship of the world...
...post-War problem of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in obtaining funds for bettering its equipment and service has been a huge one. Fortunately, the Company has enjoyed far-sighted management and excellent credit. As a result, the capitalization of the Company has been steadily increased through sales of its securities to the public. After a campaign designed to sell stock to telephone subscribers, such wide distribution of A. T. & T. shares has been obtained that the company's stockholders now number 300,000. This is the largest shareholders' list in the world; if all the company...