Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover blast against the debenture plan came after farm politics had divided House and Senate. Farm lobbyists were once more in full, though discordant, cry. The American Farm Bureau Federation had backed the administration (House) bill. The National Grange had favored the debenture (Senate) plan. Careful not to blame Congress too early in the session and talking over its head to the lobbyists behind the legislators, President Hoover had "deplored" the dissension among the farmers themselves, urged them to compromise their differences. Senator McNary was blown around to President Hoover's view, but his committee voted eight...
...take several courses with laboratory work and in many of these the number of hours per week is nearer twelve than nine. It is not too much to say that more than half of the afternoons in his last two years will find him in the laboratory. Who can blame him for a hollow laugh if one mentions the "other advantages" of College life? To be sure, his evenings may be free, but that is the time when the men he would find most value in associating with are doing their studying. Of all those who desire to see lights...
Worst Crash, Blame...
...mass of flames. Bazarnov, singed, fled for his life. A pitiful few escaped through a trapdoor to the floor below, but 120 were burnt alive. Wild-eyed peasants, unable to save their friends, rushed to the home of Sergius Wjarasmutkin. It was his factory, he must be to blame. Wjarasmutkin was beaten, stoned. At last the bleeding factory manager was thrown screaming into the blazing ruins...
...needed today, it seems to me, is a deep conviction, which should amount almost to a religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...