Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such means as their disposal, Yardlings will have no one but themselves to blame for any mistakes. All necessary precautions have been taken by the University. It only remains for new men to take advantage of them. Then the result will be a stable program of courses which will focus college study on a definite objective, pointing and preparing for an aim beyond college...
...practice, when somebody of importance had been killed or something of great value had been stolen, was to round up the entire neighboring population and keep them in an improvised concentration camp, if necessary for months, until they finally arrived among themselves at a decision of who was to blame and produced the miscreants to the Imperial Government...
...Commissar for Heavy Industry he was called "The World's Biggest Businessman." Certainly he was one of J. Stalin's two or three closest friends. The recent trial shifted any blame for the present lagging of Soviet Heavy Industry from Ordzhonikidze to the "Trotskyism" of his Vice-Commissar, Grigoriy Piatakov, who was sentenced to death. Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze. Russia has long been a land of personal vengeance and Piatakov was the kind of man whose Russian friends would...
...British lancer in The Charge of the Light Brigade, somewhat less advantageously swathed in the white tunic of a U. S. medico. He is Dr. Newell Paige, an irreligious but idealistic young surgeon who, when a patient dies because of a blunder by his superior, generously takes the blame. The daughter (Anita Louise) of the mishap's victim likes Dr. Paige at first sight, hates him when she suspects him of being responsible for her mother's death. When this situation has been straightened out by the surgical nurse (Margaret Lindsay) who was on the case, and when...
...noxious gases in the air St. Louis doctors blame the high incidence of nose and throat ailments in that city. On the smoky fog which shuts off health-promoting sunrays they blame other ills which St. Louis inhabitants suffer...