Word: credititis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...
Chief reason for Chase wishing to own American Express was that its business (done through 35 domestic, 65 foreign offices) amounted to international and interstate banking through the sale of money orders, drafts, travelers' checks, letters of credit, telegraphic and cable transfer of funds, collection of foreign bonds, coupons, legacies, the purchase and sale of foreign moneys...
Captain H. T. Wenner '30 led the scoring for the evening with 12 points to his credit. Nee was the high-scorer for M. I. T. The Harvard team worked well together, and the prospects for a successful season run high...
...this year, M. I. T. has three decisive victories to its credit, with Nee leading the team in scoring. Lawson is also an accurate shooter, and these owe their scores as much to the team-work of the quintet as to individual ability...
...duel with Count Branicki; in Rome he was decorated by the Pope; in Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin he was offered a mastership in a boys' school by Frederick the Great. When he was finally allowed to return to Venice, his money gone and credit dwindling, he became a spy for the Inquisition; congenitally unable to toe the line, he got into hot water with his holy employers and had to leave Venice once more. Thence his decline was rapid: still a spy (though now on a commission basis, no longer salaried), he fell even...