Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood. Gathered swiftly $1,000.000 in guaranteed credit for rehabilitation in flooded Vermont...
...evening known as an outstanding "Coolidge-anyway" man, confessed to personal Hooverism and virtually promised the hitherto uninstructed Virginia delegation (15 strong). Also, since Mr. Slemp's talent for delegate-charming is almost fabulous, and since he had just returned from a Southern tour, observers were inclined to credit Hooverism with the week's chief forward march...
...fact was that swashbuckling Marshal & Dictator Josef Pilsudski suddenly dismissed from command of the important Lemberg garrison General Wladyslaw Sikorski, a onetime (1922-23) Prime Minister of Poland. Reason: rash General Sikorski has just published a book denying credit to Marshal Pilsudski for having stopped by his generalship the Bolshevist advance into Poland in 1920. The credit should go instead, writes General Sikorski, to the supervising strategy of famed French Commander General Max Weygand...
...superior in every way to its more conservative cousins which had spent five months growing in the old-fashioned way. Many have been the experiments in speeding up the growth of wheat, but never has the crop been of such quality, the time so short. The professors give the credit to the length of the light period. The lights were turned on for the most part for 16 hours a day, but when the light exposure was doubled, the plant development proceeded four times as fast, and when the light was applied for 24 hours the growth was "astounding...
...read or write (except his name), but he knew Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, and a half dozen Indian tongues. He was the first white man to become a cowboy, the greatest Indian fighter the country ever had. Before he was 50, he had scores of scalps to his credit and many an Indian believed he had a charmed life...