Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit side of the Prohibition enforcement account were four years' fines collected ($12,800,000), plus revenue from the sale of confiscated automobiles, boats, bottles, barrels...
...memory of the brilliant game that Dooley put up in the Stadium last fall still lingers in the minds of Harvard men. Sport critics united in giving him a very considerable portion of the credit for the Dartmouth victory. His piloting of the team was well nigh flawless, and it won him the place as All-Stadium quarterback on the CRIMSON'S mythical eleven...
...unofficial channels. With a strong savoring of paternalistic pride they exhibit for public inspection what has already been accomplished in this way. Great, indeed, are certain achievements in which America has taken prominent part officially; but great also is the irony of any presumption by the government to claim credit for these achievements. Such accomplishment stands as a monument not to the non-committal policy of the government, but to the individual enterprise that has made it possible in spite of that policy...
...contains nothing which will cause patriotic Siamese at Harvard to write indignant letters to the CRIMSON. A delightfully impossible potentate is pursued through two acts by mysterious, impossible emissaries of the King of Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left to pay off the messenger who brings a parcel for his bride, the extremities to which he is forced to evade the fearsome Cambodians, may be imagined. To round out the plot there is a French widow with a prodigious family of daughters and a treasure chest...
...CRIMSON attempted to calm the storm by explaining editorially that "What we want is a large demonstration which will reflect credit upon the college. Men who are indifferent as to which procession to join should do as the majority directs...