Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more mature advice. And the advisor, somewhat reluctant, reticent, a bit diffident, perhaps, has been too easily repelled by the slightest lack of interest on the part of the advisee. As a result, the great expectations of the system cannot be said to have been realized. If the blame must be placed, it undoubtedly rests with the advisors...
...literary gentlemen, with a goodly number damning it with artistic fervor and almost as many arguing that its effect, if any upon the author's output is entirely beneficial Obviously like the color of ink this is a personal matter. But some of the more passionate are inclined to blame all the evils of modern literature free verse and the machine like quality of the American newspaper on the unoffending but nevertheless pernicious mechanism...
TARNISH?Convincing reversal of the original concept that Eve is to blame...
...Mind you," Captain Brennan went on, "the fellows are not entirely to blame. There are more cars owned by college men this year than in any other year in my experience, yet the garage rates are higher than ever before. With all the unused land and endowments and legacies Harvard has, the fellows might be given a place where they could park their cars. It would save a lot of accidents and a lot of fines...
Feldmarschall Erich von Ludendorff (flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting) was acquitted of all blame for his part in the so-called "Beer Hall" uprising* of last Fall...