Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...levied upon all members. According to the city health authorities, Treasurer Fay's collections ran up to $800,000 per year. Yet he complained: "All I get out of this racket is $500 a week. It is not enough for all this worry. Besides it might affect my credit in my other lines of business." Indicted with Fay were 140 members of his Association, all unproductive city men who had learned too easily the principle which government is trying to teach their productive country cousins...
...arrangements" were: 1) an agreement with Argentina by which that country is to buy $38,880,000 worth of manufactured goods from Great Britain over a period of two years, and reciprocally Britain is to take an equal amount in raw material from Argentina; 2) an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of $77,760,000; 3) a British loan of $200,000,000 to the Argentine government for road building...
...South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase of a car on credit has become the greatest danger to the Union. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination...
Following this there were two tie games and another Dartmouth victory and then Harvard again assumed the upper arm and remained unbeaten until 1922. Since then however, the Green has four games chalked up in the credit column against Harvard...
...Studies in Education." As revealed by that study, the investigators concluded that college marking is at best far too much a matter of chance, and that every care is needed to make it accurate. It showed, however, it is the difference in examiners which makes the attainment of academic credit a gamble for the student...