Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...massacres in Armenia, has also been freed of any stigma, in that he was acting under "instructions from the Government". Furthermore it now seems probable that the man who torpedoed the Listerine, and all the other submarine commanders will escape through the same loop-hole--by putting the blame on anonymous higher powers...
...course the crowd wasn't to blame for not cheering because there weren't any cheer leaders, and for the same reason they can scarcely be blamed for going away. We need cheer leaders and ought to have them at the Holy Cross game on Wednesday. There is no reason for waiting until the Princeton game before we start to cheer. Most of us haven't been in a regular cheering section since last November, and our cheering won't be very good at the Princeton game if we don't try it a few times before. It wasn...
...others but for him. To quote the book itself, "There is a whip in Harvard for every man's hobby", and in its pages it is made astonishingly clear that he who falls to win recognition in the interest or activity he pursues, can have only himself to blame. The lists of others who have done and are doing things worth while for themselves and for the College, can hardly fall to interest the newcomer eager in his turn to do his share...
...later years one will ask less about the blame for the War and more for the blame for the Peace. The present Entente meetings are simply frightened, blind searchings for a solution in which only capitalistic damages and the satisfaction of Chauvinistic desires are taken into regard. Not a word about real peace, amnesty, general disarmament or all the noble objectives for which the youth of the Allied nations fought and died...
...cannot blame other countries for assessing us the same amount that we are taxed, yet it is an embarrassing detail in international intercourse, the growth of which we assume to promote. There seems no valid reason why this exorbitant toll should be maintained; a price more nearly equivalent to that demanded abroad would appear far more reasonable...