Word: credititis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rhymester Kellaher's inspiration was the following phrase "Citizens of the Republic were put on their metal. . . ." (TIME, Nov. 19). To a TIME writer a reprimand for spelling by ear. To Rhymester Kellaher all credit for putting TIME on its mettle...
...said he was Davy Jones, emissary of King Neptune. He bore warrants to arrest some 800 of the 1,300 officers, men, guests on board who had never before crossed the Equator. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover were exempt, he being a "shellback" with 14 crossings of the Equator to his credit, more than anyone else present except his naval aide, Commander A. T. Beauregard...
...silver (argenta) which they expected but failed to find in her mountains. Last year Argentina borrowed more U. S. dollars than any other nation. Most of them she spent on developing the low-lying, fertile Pampas and the highland grazing grounds of Patagonia (see Map). To her especial credit is the fact that Argentina also spends millions on schools and public works, and possesses today the most literate population in South America...
Never had such a total been rolled up in five days. Obviously, it challenged explanations. Most plausible, most demonstrable, was the theory that the public, in general wary of Wall Street, is now possessed of a great desire to trust all its savings and all its credit to common stocks. Few professionals and not many amateurs have lost either savings or credit as a result. Not every one of the 1,131 listed stocks has advanced in the Hoover Market, but few have gone off. Certain stocks have appreciated 75% and even 100% in value. For a fair view...
Wright Honors. The U. S., then, was tepid to flying. So the Wrights went to Europe. There they won recognition and financial backing. That is why, when Orville Wright believed that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was erroneously giving the late Samuel Pierpont Langley credit for the first man-carrying airplane, he sent his Kitty Hawk plane to the Science Museum' at South Kensington, London, for preservation...