Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardling jumps up from Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" to realize that his new Elgin watch is apparently ten minutes slow, and that he is exactly ten minutes late to class, it is no less than the complete system of University electric telechron clocks that is to blame...
...Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts at dodging responsibility, were putting the next move up to John Lewis, shouldering off on him the blame if Labor should be split. A committee headed by the Railway Clerks' George M. Harrison set to work drafting peace proposals, but there was no public indication that burly Leader Lewis was any more ready than before to discuss compromise of his demand...
...must now obtain a license from Dr. Goebbels. His decree was issued partly because the crushingly-propagandized German cinema industry is now playing to nearly empty houses while Germans crowd to see the few U. S. films admitted to their Fatherland. This state of affairs Dr. Goebbels chooses to blame on his country's cinema critics...
...wish to say categorically that I think there are other nations more to blame than either Germany or Italy...
...situation, Dr. Bock has called attention to the lightness of the attack and the quick recovery of those who suffered. While the burden of suspicion falls on veal and ice-cream served in the Union, the lack of definite bacteriological evidence make any attempt to fix the blame extremely difficult. Thus, with the University doing all in its power to protect the food from contaminating influences, all the student can do when the plague strikes is to screw his courage to the sticking place and hope it strikes somebody else...