Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, Conn., June 5--Declaring editorially that half of the Yale undergraduates are guilty of breaking college rules against cheating during the present examination period, the Yale Daily News nevertheless was inclined to blame the system of incessant daily tests rather than condemn the offenders' characters...
...Smiley stood scratching his head. . . . And he ketched Dan'l by the nape of the neck, and lifted him up and says, 'Why, blame my cats, if he don't weigh five pound!' And turned him upside down, and he belched out a double handful of shot. And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man-he set the frog down and took out after that feller...
...somewhat radical Kensitas campaign and how large would be the future shadow representing Kensitas sale's figure. They recalled that Mr. Hill had made a strenuous attempt to sell, in his unique manner, Wix & Son's Wix cigaret, that this attempt had been a failure. The blame, however, was placed on the product rather than the advertising: England is used to a tightly rolled cigaret and Wix was of the loose-rolled U. S. variety. Taking no chances, he picked for his second attempt to make a "Lucky Strike of England," the Kensitas, a long-established cigaret better...
...have two traitors [indicating Opperman and Foran] before you, two contemptible and disloyal men, men I can't find words strong enough to denounce! Judas betrayed for 30 pieces of silver! They are worse than Judas! They not only betrayed their trust but tried to put the blame on another member of the department...
...blame may be placed on the professors themselves. At its best the academic profession, in proportion to the study and preparation necessary for the attainment of success in it, is the most grossly underpaid in the world. At its worst it offers only inevitable starvation; at the top of the ladder there is only a quickly reached maximum salary that would seem like a miserable pitance to a second rate lawyer. So when the chance for self betterment comes in the field the man is a fool who does not take advantage of the opportunity to remove the threat...