Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese political leaders are not entirely antipathetic to these plans, but insist that if they are only left to themselves they can deal with the present political situation. They contend that foreigners only bolster up and corrupt incompetent governments by selling them arms and ammunition; then they blame the Chinese...
Letters of praise and blame are easy enough to understand. If a reader enjoys a book immensely, he has, in almost every case, no way whatsoever of thanking the author for the pleasure he has given him except by letter ? and such letters form by far the pleasantest part of any author's mail, no matter how much said author may lie about it. If the reader doesn't like a book, is shocked, offended or proudly discovers some technical mistake?his injured feelings and his professional criticism must, too, be expressed at long distance. And let him have...
Many people blame the faculty and trustees for the intellectual lethargy in our colleges. But how about the students themselves? Why is that the majority of college papers, which are entirely in the students' own hands, have pages filled with accounts of athletics, poor comic columns, and trite editorials that try so hard to be clever? Why is there so little mention of education, and intellectual discussions, why no word on things that go on outside the college walls...
...your life, dear reader, has not been dotted here and there with glorious experiences, you are yourself to blame...
...entails an added expense of only a few dollars per annum to each individual. The chief result of the threatened boycott of sugar in this country has been the creation of considerable hostile sentiment in Cuba. The Cuban Association of Sugar Planters in a public manifesto laid the blame for high sugar upon the Cuban crop failure and the American tariff. The Havana newspaper, Heraldo de Cuba, advocated a boycott against American goods, if Cuban sugar is boycotted here...