Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation at the present session while Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee spoke of it as a "last resort." The Democratic position shook down to this: If President Hoover signs a beer bill, increased income taxes may not be necessary; if he vetoes it, taxpayers can blame him for added burdens...
There was no celebration. Comrade Stalin knew better than to review troops or the populace in the Red Square. Russians are hungrier this winter than they have been in several years (TIME. Sept. 12 et seq.). They blame the food shortage on the Plan, blame Dictator Stalin for the Plan, and yet are docile. Things were so quiet in Moscow last week that Soviet censors calmly passed dozens of dispatches stating that Russia has failed to achieve anything like complete or uniform fulfillment of her Plan...
Feeling that nobody can look far ahead, Inventor Kettering maintains that research "is a method of finding out what people will be wanting when they are through wanting what they are wanting now." He feels there is still too much of the horseless carriage about automobiles but would blame it on the public's demands rather than on any engineering deficiency. He visions "a great express highway traversing the continent and carrying an almost fabulous stream of traffic, travelling well over a mile a minute." the cars of that not too distant future looking "no more like our cars...
...annual rattlesnake hunt. His old aunt tells him flatly it is typhoid fever: she knows it by the smell. Sure enough, she is right. And then, though the Doctor works like a bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart...
...favor drastic changes, but the system is not yet so successful as it might be. Tutorial work is most successful with the serious student (he need not be brilliant), and this suggest that the student is more often to blame for the failure of the system than the tutor...