Word: creditable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...year term, the Electoral College picked Finland's third hero: suave, British-knighted, wartime Premier Rysto Heikki Ryti, who owns the best Finnish voice for catching U. S. and British ears. As longtime Governor of the Bank of Finland, he can claim most of the credit for the "Finns-are-honest" reputation of his country, has appeared to U. S. citizens the champion of Finland's determination to pay its war debt...
...arrived in the U. S. five days before the war began, at a moment when the U. S. was doubly suspicious of all foreign-especially all British-propaganda. At his death a major U. S. concern was how aid to Britain could be increased. Though no historian would credit that great shift wholly to the Ambassador, there was no doubt that he had been an integral part of it. He had been right in his analysis of U. S. opinion and of the course of U. S. foreign policy; he had answered by word and action much U. S. suspicion...
...while it looked as if the Crimson were going to chalk up its first win of the season, but in five short minutes in the third period the entire complexion of the encounter changed, and when B. U. left the ice they had a well deserved win to their credit...
From the U. S. he asked a credit of $100,0000,000 to buy food for his people. In return he was willing to record his "intention" to keep the peace for the duration of the war. To Britain this consideration was worth much...
...people who asked what was the use of newly discovered facts, Benjamin Franklin used to say, "What is the use of an infant?" The great Michael Faraday of England repeated the crack (with due credit) while lecturing on chlorine...