Word: fault
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...This is not the fault of the daily newspapers; they print all the news. It is not the fault of the weekly 'reviews' ; they adequately develop and comment on the news. The reason people are uninformed is that no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed...
...most glaring fault that a survey of programs would show, is that they have been as unbalanced as Humpty Dumpty on his wall, and neither Dr. Koussevitsky nor his orchestra have been able to put them together very coherently. I have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms...
...this quarrel, Jeffers was on the losing side. But the fault was not his. He had clear marching orders: to carry out the Baruch program, down to the last valve and pressure gauge. Like any good soldier, he was ready to keep marching until he dropped-or until his chief gave him new orders...
This time, at least, the fault lies not with the body of the Army, but with the War Department at its head. Whether the Department has finally made up its mind will be discovered only when the actual orders begin to arrive...
...year, Congress whirls dizzily along in a maelstrom of personal and legislative animosities. with the bill still far from finished and the taxpayer, left out in the cold as usual, watching the match from a seat in the third balcony. Neither Congress nor the treasury, both quick to find fault with the plan proposed by Beardsley Ruml, Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, have come forward with any final plan of their own. It would seem as if their chief reason for opposing the Ruml plan is that someone else thought of it first. After Ruml's five...