Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ether, oxygen and nitrous oxide as anesthetic for an operation. This mixture of gases is explosive. In Mrs. Branton's case something ignited the mixture in her lungs. The mixture exploded, the lungs burst, Mrs. Branton died. A coroner's jury decided that no one was to blame...
...article published in the Daily Princetonian, Dr. Mather A. Abbott discusses the relation of Preparatory Schools to the individualism creed of the colleges. Quite rightly, we believe, he absolves the schools and their emphasis upon spirit from blame, for the college reaction. It is a characteristic fostered by men of college age, independent of school training to disregard as superfluous all community interests which do not react to the immediate satisfaction of the individual. Dr. Abbott writes, "let us stick to the old order, if so-called individualism is going to bring to pass the current state of disinterestedness...
Though we may have seemed highly vitriolic in our condemnation of student apathy, we do not really feel that the student body is, after all, ultimately to blame. It is foolish to belabor the pupil, according to modern pedagogy, for not being interested in the subject-matter. The subject-matter must be vivified and personalized for the pupil. If it is to be of any value to him. Similarly, it is taking an unfair view of Detroit City undergraduates to assert wrong headedness on their side in failing to react to sports, dances, debates, and plays. What we do berate...
...Princess Chichibu her jeweled collar. A local Belgrade photographer found it in the gutter and at once turned it in at our Central Police Station. As to the loss which Princess Olga sustained in the American Legation we are working on the theory that a kleptomaniac was to blame. The people of Belgrade are fundamentally honest...
...quack cancer 'cures' and the premature, unintelligent and overenthusiastic publicity on many 'new treatments' the press has built up unfounded hopes to be followed by a bad mental reaction in thousands and tens of thousands of people. . . . The better journals are not so much to blame...