Word: ledgers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Added to this debit was the bill for the year's staggering total of gold and silver imports-$1,210,000,000. Thus the grand total on the debit side of the U. S. ledger...
...iron hand, insists on punctuality, obedience, deference. To a young shipboard visitor on his recent trip he growled: "Boy, take off your cap!" Philadelphia newspapers know better than to print anything the Archbishop might take offense at, for a boycott may fall such as once forced the Public Ledger to apologize abjectly for a story quoting Katharine Mayo in disparagement of Philippine missions. More interested in archdiocesan than in national Catholic affairs, Cardinal Dougherty typically interpreted the Church's attitude toward the cinema in his own way, declaring a complete boycott which, though no longer enforced, still stands. Austere...
...debit side of the Frank ledger, according to his critics, is his handling of certain disputes centering around the conduct of University departments. In 1931 the President's efforts to remove the Dean of Women excited a controversy disproportionate to the true importance of the affair. In 1935 the state was startled by a scandal involving the extention division of the University. A year later a fight in the athletic department split alumni and others into two embattled factions. His opponents charge that through Frank's neglect and vacillation the sparks struck by incipient friction have too often blazed into...
Cynical Philadelphians foresaw a fight to have the indictments quashed, scant possibility of convictions, much less of prison sentences, if & when the cases come to trial. Much talk about political spite work behind the indictments rose from the Union League and Rittenhouse clubs. And the Republican Ledger sprang to the bankers' defense with a story reporting the indictments under the head: ACCUSED DENIED RIGHT TO EXPLAIN IN MORTGAGE QUIZ...
...victory should have appeared as the complete vindication of a policy of amateurism rather than its death-knell. More than any other college has Harvard been tempted to take the easiest way out during its past years of defeat. Any success it has now must go down in the ledger to the credit of the belief that football can survive as a sport for the sake of sport...