Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When box-office receipts fall off, as they did last month, movie exhibitors try not to blame the product. In Washington, D.C., for example, last fortnight's slump was traced to the start of daylight saving time (the time shift did not seem to unsettle moviegoers in other cities). In St. Louis, the slump was blamed on bad weather; in San Francisco, on good weather. Elsewhere, exhibitors spoke vaguely of "seasonal influences...
...result, many parts of the traditional commencement program will have to be omitted so as not to conflict with exam schedules. And most graduating seniors are prone to blame politics as the reason for the change...
Psychiatrist Leo Kanner used to stand up for parents. He championed them against the experts, said that it was unfair to blame the mother or father every time something went wrong with the child. Last week he told the American Ortho-psychiatric* Association in Manhattan about no parents whom he could not defend. He had examined their offspring at the children's psychiatric clinic which he heads at Johns Hopkins...
...Packard, P. S. Wild, Jr., G. W. Woodworth, Dr. D. M. Little, Dean Watson and myself. The committee has general supervision over undergraduate organizations and activities outside of athletics. Dean Watson's job is to carry out the decisions and general policies adopted by the committee. Whatever praise or blame there may be for the decision in the case of the Band or any other organizations beings on the committee, not Dean Watson...
...must not think that Russia is always to blame for world problems," Mrs. Dean told an overflow crowd in Kirkland House Common Room. "Even if Communism did not exist, the world today would still be seething with unrest, following the destruction caused by World...