Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...their wares." While munitions makers undoubtedly profit from war, as do many other persons, they are no more primarily responsible for wars than was Peter the Hermit, John Brown, or the Austrian Archduke who had himself assassinated to start the World War. You and Senator Nye might as properly blame the Hoover Company and Fuller Brush Company for the Kansas dust storms, although the latter of the two concerns is responsible for The Fuller Brush Man, who is about as all pervading as the dust itself...
Harvard's cases of ventral inconvenience seem to be well on the wane, with only 11 men reporting all week-end. The investigation of the foods has as yet been unsuccessful, and no one food is to blame...
Clear thinking deserts nine people out of ten when they are confronted with a situation involving their health. Instead of determining and removing the cause, they first of all decide who is to blame. That the blame for the present food epidemic in Kirkland and Winthrop Houses should wait until the investigation has been completed is not only important but the logical manner in which to meet the situation...
...epidemic is still at the emergency stage. Any measure which officials consider necessary to stop it are justifiable and must be taken. Not until the event has become a part of history should the second and equally important factor be considered, that of allocating the blame and taking adequate steps to prevent its recurrence in the future...