Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be inclined to blame the people more than their representatives," he said. "At any rate in the next election the people must choose men who will support the Bok plan or some other similar...
...monger," Herr Hugo Stinnes. Said Herr Bernhard: "The mass of German people do not seem quite aware of what causes foreigners annoyance at this vulgar display. It is not the fact that there is still wealth in Germany. There are rich and poor everywhere, and no sensible person will blame a man simply because he is rich if he does his duty to mankind...
...surface of the water. Bitter controversy as to the cause of the tragedy has so far produced no enlightening facts. American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered-experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ships are now being built. The French, on the other hand, are likely to abandon all their work in such craft, concentrat- ing on supremacy in airplanes...
...little tasks and left the great task of establishing the peace of the world in the hands of our former allies, discouraged and hindered by our repudiation of the work we had begun. If others in those years have pursued selfish aims, we who set the example cannot blame them. If in those years, or in the years to come for which they prepared the way, there has been, or shall be, strife and bloodshed that our strength in the council of the world might have prevented, the blood is on our hands...
...ratio to their possibilities, he finds that the colleges have accomplished very little. Not that the leaders such as Professor Baker here at Harvard and Thomas Wood Stevens at Carnegie Institute of Technology, are to blame. They have given their all to the work. It is a certain "Puritan disdain" which causes the universities to "dawdle". Harvard has a man who is not an impractical dreamer, but one who has achieved more in his field than anyone else. And if we look for proof? Witness the playwrights, producers, actors, scene-designers, and critics who have come out of Cambridge...