Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissolve the difficulties of depression by a process of borrowing their way out. Our public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the Administration is not entirely et blame as the recent survey report of the United States Conference of Mayors shows the distinct tendency of larging cities to pass their local relief burdens along to the federal government. Only five of the thirty-seven larger cities paid as much as one-third of their own relief bills for last...
Scientist. Not entirely to nearsightedness and fatuity does Mr. Prentice lay the blame for confusion and low milk output. The science of genetics is no older than the 20th Century, and it has been pursued mainly with laboratory animals-fruit flies, guinea pigs, mice, paramecia. It is not surprising that the average cattleman should never have heard of sex-linkage, crossing over, multiple allelomorphism, or know that inheritance is a complex mechanism controlled by genes, invisible unit carriers of hereditary characters...
...left have to do their own and the other women's work without extra pay. And this is two or three weeks before graduation. Well, when the student brings his guests in his suite for graduation he is ashamed of the looks of it--and I can't blame him. So the maid that is left there can do nothing else but make the beds in corrugated fashion...
...their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean a three to eight room suite within the arbitrary time...
...blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...