Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Samuel Zemurray, Jr., and Deris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor History, said that in this world God has given us the freedom of choice between good and evil. We know what the laws of God are. If we fail because we break His laws we have only ourserves to blame. Such is democracy, Cam concluded...
...that he resign, only to be told to stay where he was and see the trouble through. The army might fire a president when it was good & ready; last week army chiefs may have suspected that Perón would like to get out from under now, shift the blame to other shoulders, then brace himself for a smashing comeback in the next elections...
Franklin Stevens, having just resigned as town treasurer of Andover, Vt. (pop. 213), sat down last week to write a difficult letter to the nearby Rutland Daily Herald. "This letter is not to be construed as an effort to disperse blame," he began, "nor am I trying to be dramatic. The mood is that of self-condemnation, coupled with a profound disappointment in myself as a person and citizen...
...most part the graduate schools are to blame, Carman believes. They have apparently decided that all a teacher needs to get along on a college faculty is "knowledge of the subject and ability to do research . . . The university graduate who is awarded his Ph.D. is recommended for college teaching on his promise as a scholar" -not on his promise as a teacher...
...known, they said; once the case became public they about-faced to preserve their chairman's name. Their arguments are not convincing: either Lally was guilty of the charges--and there is some reason to think that he had not run the Committee well--or he was not to blame for the mixups. If he was in the wrong there was no reason to shield him; if the charges were strong enough to be raised and accepted, the no-confidence vote should have been supported, whether it was public knowledge or not. If the charges were false or insufficient, they...