Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the American press is rapidly becoming degenerate. Several leading journals of the country have undertaken a defense of the press and their arguments are summed up in the amusing comment printed below--giving the public "what it wants" in order to sell the paper. According to them the fault lies with the reader...
Patently something is wrong when a law misfunctions so flagrantly. The newness of the regulations and the changing boundaries of Central Europe, add immensely, of course, to the confusion. But there can be no excuse for so large a number of tragedies. Part of the fault lies in the lack of co-operation between the immigration authorities and the American consuls who sign passports long after the quotas for their countries have been reached. Apparently no effort is made to investigate conditions beforehand, and so prevent the immigrant from starting on a useless, or worse than useless, pilgrimage. Consuls have...
...steamship companies at fault; their days of peasant exploitation are proved, by official facts, to be past and gone. The mistakes and seriocomic muddles are official mistakes and muddles alone. That they spring from a law whose application has been made too rigid and impersonal there can be no doubt. After all, the immigrant is not a chattel nor an automaton; he is a human being, and as such must have his own special problems and conditions...
...availeth not to rail at the unseeing, so it bespeaketh a mind of little spaciousness in him who will not bestir himself in the task of enlightenment. If the discourse of the learned professor interesteth not the common student it is not the latter who is alogether at fault. Perchance the lecture is indeed stupid, or perchance the student has not ever been awakened to the significance of learning...
...Arena ice, but the novelty soon wore off, and the University skaters had to stiffen up in order to check the growing attack which the Freshmen were uncovering. Coach Claflin's men evidently were not expecting to find stiff opposition and seemed to fall back to their old fault of not getting underway at the start. But when the Freshman attack was well developed, they found it no easy task to score, and it was ten minutes before they were able to successfully break up the yearling defence as Martin recovered the puck from a scrimmage before the Freshman goal...