Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exciting encounter. He had been placed upon the team late in the season, in the series of revisions which made the Argentines, who reached their peak the week before the matches, the favorites. If the U. S. four had failed to win, their forward would certainly have received the blame; just as certainly their victory was due to his abruptly brilliant play in the last period...
That is the end of "the chronicle of a woman's life," the first full length novel which famed Austrian Arthur Schnitzler has written for 20 years. The book moves slowly with the pace of life in language that is bare and beautiful. Author Schnitzler does not blame Theresa for her tragedy, nor does he blame the circumstances which compel it. He merely understands that these things are a part of life, and writes about them seriously and gently...
...records rather than in any individual delinquency. Responsibility is bound to float rather uncertainly from one to another of an elective body of student officials; the custom of changing all class and college officers annually but widens, of course, the breach for error. But the mere fact that blame lies in the system rather than on specific heads does not mitigate the ill-effects of the resulting inefficiency...
...sequence of arraignment leads, then, from the educational systems and their proponents to the undergraduate critic and from him to those who were responsible for his development. That development has brought about a selfish laxity of resolution quick to find fault and to lay blame elsewhere, and absence of the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that is indispensable to education. The final responsibility attaches to the American conception of education as a mechanical process that lays stress on the method to the disparagement of the end, and then turns on itself, finding dissatisfaction in the perversion of its purpose...
...Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, but not so bravely but that Mr. Mills could still rebut with a semblance of conviction. The Warrior's terms as Governor of New York had been costly, perhaps for good reasons. But the Warrior did not restate the reasons. Instead he shifted "blame" to the Republican Legislatures that had voted appropriations under him. It was defensive move Number Five...