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Word: crediting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday night, February 27, 1926, the speedy Crimson track team again outstripped the invading hosts, placing in every event and totaling 59 points to its credit. The Hanoverian dark horses were able to romp home with 30 1-2 points, while the Red and White Ithacans trailed with 26 1-2 points. The meet abounded in great performances and two new records were set. Second only to the great uphill fight made by Kane in the relay, after he had previously broken his own Triangular meet record in winning the 600-yard run in one minute 16 and four-fifths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Triumphs Add Lustre to Triangular Meet History | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

Having glanced over the high spots of the nine preceding Triangular meets, it is interesting to note, with the tenth classic close at hand, that Harvard, Dartmouth and Gornell each have three victories to their credit. Dartmouth had the upper hand in the beginning, but Cornell soon usurped the Green supremacy. The Crimson athletes have most recently been masters of the situation, but if they are destined to hold their present situation and forge ahead of their opponents for a fourth consecutive triumph they will have to turn back two threatening track hordes in the Arena this coming Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Triumphs Add Lustre to Triangular Meet History | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

...Amsterdam, Basel, had guessed that French business would have to pay about 6.10% interest on new borrowings. But out came the bankers with Paris-Orleans Railroad bonds yielding only 5.75% and the public quickly devoured them. Proof was here that bankers and public have a better opinion of French credit than statisticians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: French Credit | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...influence of one of his many women friends. His too brilliant maiden speech was booed. But an Irish opponent, impressed, advised him: "Get rid of your genius for a session. . . . The House will not allow a man to be a wit and an orator, unless they have the credit of finding it out." He gave them the opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dizzy | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...nature of the Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OFFICIAL VAGABOND | 2/15/1928 | See Source »

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