Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with German goose-steppers again on the march last week, was to blame for this striding...
...blame!" cried Orator Hitler. "It was not in our power ... to give ideas to the World, let alone prescribe laws. That was done by the mighty rulers of the World. . . . [That] took its birth from the fatal [Versailles] Treaty ... an historical example of how War ought not to be ended...
Called before the House Military Affairs Committee three years ago, the tart-tongued General was discreet enough to give no testimony until the Committee assured him that it would "take the blame for anything that might happen." Then he cut loose: "The Army has become so complicated that an archangel right out of Heaven could not operate it. ... The War Department has always collapsed at the outbreak of every war and the present organization will collapse at the outbreak of the next war because it is too topheavy, contains too many conflicting agencies, has too much divided responsibility...
...point I am trying to bring is that those students at N. C. University or any other place are not totally to blame. It's the system imposed on them that is to blame. An honor system is only a joke unless it works both for the professors as well as the students. Shame on N. C. U. for branding its sons as thieves while there are thousands more in schools over the country. It should brand the system that led to such a crisis as well as jail the Honor Student who sold himself for money...
Representing the actor's point of view, Brandon Tynan soundly asserted that the theatre "was not essentially to blame for the life it portrays." Since the drama "expresses the life of the nation .... it is ineffectual to throw stones at the mirror." He justly called Boston's censorship system "condemnation without representation", for, at present theatres may have their licenses revoked as well as their plays banned without even the pretense of a hearing. It is remarkable that such undemocratic treatment should have continued almost undisputed for twenty-one years...