Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face missing was Ben Hogan's, and that wasn't Ben's fault. He won $3,823 in four tournaments before his near-fatal auto accident in February, and is still seventh on this year's list of money winners. As in big league baseball, the flow of young talent had been pinched off by World War II and was just beginning to be seasoned enough to make itself felt...
...Church's famed Baltimore Catechism* states explicitly that those who remain outside the Roman Catholic Church "through no grave fault of their own and do not know it is the true Church can be saved by making use of the graces which God gives them . . ." Each man, the Catholic Church holds, gets enough grace to achieve salvation. Only God knows how he uses...
These conditions are rarely the fault of local or state administration. North Dakota, for instance, spends twice as much percentage-wise of its annual income on education as California, and yet can afford to pay its teachers only half as much. There simply isn't enough money for education--outside of Washington. The proposed bill would deal out the federal funds to each state, giving most of it to the needy, and only a soupcon to such rich states as New York...
...book has one serious fault: it is written so far downhill, presumably for the largest possible Russian audience, that the prose is sometimes little better than primer talk. The interesting thing about The Train is that Panova still finds the same kind of Russian characters under the Soviet skin...
...Club System Con" is hardly more enlightening. The writer (also anonymous) seems casual and tired of it all even at the beginning. He dallies with a few truisms (that the New England aristocracy isn't much of an aristocracy, and that much of Harvard's "apathy" is the fault of the Clubs), but his case is confused, contradictory in places, and concludes bitterly by comparing the System to "a roach on the wall...