Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books of Professor Babbitt. Almost to a phrase the attacks on utilitarianism, immediacy, cheapness, indolence, and shying from moral and mental effort, emanate, seemingly, from the twilight of Sever 11. In American education, to quote from the humanistic code, there is an "elementary confusion of standards," and the blame lies on the self-styled and meddling educational 'experts.'" In the interests of palatability American children are being fed knowledge by countless "plans," by our Teachers' Colleges, and are doing no learning for themselves...
...back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched the sun play Lotto with the chubby red tower across the river, and later he had watched the channel lights on the bridges wink at themselves. Tonight, though, he had not been alone; a cur had laughed...
Director Fechner proved a confusing witness. Clearly the telephone call from the White House had sounded like "orders" to him. He was now ready to take all the blame. He had signed the contract with persuasive Mr. Bevier May 15. No, he had not asked for competitive bids. No, he had not investigated the product-not until two weeks later. It was also brought out that although Mr. Bevier had quoted the kits at $1.10 each, by the time he had finished selling Mr. Fechner they had somehow jumped to $1.40 each, the increase being apparently occasioned by Mr. Bevier...
Back at Lansing, Governor Landon announced six-month "good time" allowances for 1,850 convicts who did not take advantage of the break. The State Prison Board exonerated Warden Prather and his staff of all blame. "The six men who planned the break were lifers, killers and desperadoes," the board found, ". . . desperately willing to gamble for freedom...
...that Jelke had been cruel to her when he blackened her eye, abused her in the presence of others. Said the Judge: ". . . For her it was a marriage of convenience and an opportunity to indulge in luxury. . . . The wife liked excitement, social affairs and a good time, and no blame is attached to her for that, because at her age such things are to be expected." Separated. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, widow of John Jacob Astor who was drowned on the Titanic; and William K. Dick, sugar tycoon...