Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common complaint among modern U. S. artists is that book illustration has gone to hell. For this some of them might share the blame, since to the naked eye of the average publisher nonrepresentational painting is not much use as illustration. Fact is, however, that the fashion is against any illustrations at all except for children's books-a tendency which reached a little apogee last month when Painter Miguel Covarrubias published a book on Bali, illustrated mostly with photographs by his wife (TIME...
...more reading than in 1900. Because inefficient reading is responsible for 60% of all failures in school, $612 of every $1,000 spent for primary schooling is spent to teach reading. Yet one-half the adult population of the U. S. reads with difficulty. Eye defects are partly to blame. So are poverty of vocabulary and fuzzy thinking. Major reason for reading inefficiency, however, is bad reading habits...
...wool tops futures market under the wing of the New York Cotton Exchange. Lately wool prices have slumped as have most other commodities and last week the wool business, still unused to the complexities of a futures exchange, suddenly began to bleat that the wool market is largely to blame...
When Professor Smillie of the Medical School gave the causes for the outbreak of gastric-intestinal ailments, he supplied an acceptable excuse for the universities and hotels, but provided a serious indictment of the regulation of food supplies by the federal and state governments. Admittedly, the blame does not lie with the producer, who finds he is able to save certain of his crops from insects and other pests by the use of poisonous and semi-poisonous chemicals, or with the universities and hotels who must buy such impure supplies; the blame lies with the governmental agencies, who, ignoring their...
Those, then, who blame the University for their stomach disorders, and criticize the quality of food served in the Union and in the Houses, would do well to divert their critical energies to the state and federal governments. Upon these, who are really the guilty parties in a never-ending crime, much spleen may well be vented, in the hope that eventually, the diet of Americans may not consist of a balanced intake of arsenic and other assorted poisons...