Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even more whom narrow means and want of family connection did not cut off from almost universal popularity. Students at Harvard, like students elsewhere--like all men, young or old--may misjudge their fellows, and, misjudging them, may use them cruelly. Yet even in such cases most of the blame belongs usually to the misjudged man. The student who bears himself well and does something for his class or his College is sure eventually to succeed. In the Freshman year a few prizes may be given to attractive loafers; but in the long run the Harvard public insists on some...
...crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which was the foolish action of the crew at the station in changing the valves. Already they are trying to lay the blame on poor dead Landsrowne...
...stamps," while Burnham maneuvered the Department of Agriculture as he saw fit. "I regard Mr. Burnham's influence over Dr. E. W. Nelson and other high officers of the Biological Survey on game-shooting privileges as completely paramount. I believe that that association's influence is to blame for the fact that now the Biological Survey and the Secretary of Agriculture have flatly refused all appeals to reduce the bag limits and open seasons on migratory game, and have passed the buck to the states to do as they please about it. Ever since 1918, the Secretary...
...Following the well-defined tendency to lay the blame for all Britain's economic ailments at the door of the Government's gold standard policy, a determined attack on Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill's financial policy was launched by Laborite Lees-Smith, an economist. The attack followed the usual technical theme of stating that the Chancellor was conserving the gold standard by an embargo on foreign and colonial loans, which, of course, means that Britain cannot, under existent conditions, stimulate trade without granting credits in the shape of loans. This accusation of a false policy...
...Minnigerode, setting aside any question of moral blame, criticized Jackson for his "impetuosity" and "slender knowledge of the law" for not first making sure that a divorce had been granted...