Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been balked a second time. "I am and always have been an Insurgent," he once said. In 1925, Mr. Owen left politics and entered the employ of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. He went abroad and after inspecting Germany, gave an interview exonerating Germany and Wilhelm II from all War blame. When he came home he settled down in Washington. His Oklahoma days were over and he now looks back on them much as returned and retired Englishmen revive their careers in the British provinces and colonies. From the point of view of actual votes, the Owen "bolt" seemed far less...
Said F. H. Shera, Professor-elect at Sheffield University: "Upon whose head and upon what country can the blame be laid for the invention of the saxophone? ... I am afraid that the great American Nation was responsible...
Previously, for 23 years, Chile and Peru had been negotiating acrimoniously over the disputed provinces of Tacna and Arica (TIME, March 7). They may now resume these negotiations, thus relieving the U. S. of much Latin American blame, which was incurred when the President of the U. S. did not succeed in settling the Tacna-Arica question, after accepting the joint invitations of Chile and Peru to act as arbiter (TIME, March...
...missionary mind. He recognized the presence of a curious mental instability among transplanted Westerners. In the clinics of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, he saw many a case written down as "neurasthenic," "insane," "neurotic." In the Peking Union Medical College, he heard fellow psychiatrists place the blame on food, climate, economic readjustments. But enthusiastic, 30-year-old Dr. McCartney sought a subtler, more basic cause...
...Christian monarchs, statesmen, and soldiers were responsible for the World War!" cried Mr. George. "The blame does not rest on pagans, infidels, agnostics or atheists...