Word: fault
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leading teachers of teachers, delivered a diatribe against "fetish worship" of Ph.D. degrees. The old story he told his audience (most of whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D. degrees are "mass-produced" to the number of 3,000 per year, that the fault is with colleges for requiring that all professors be Doctors of Philosophy. Result, said Dr. Knight, is that rearrangements of known facts pass for contributions to learning. "Knowledge," said the Doctor, "is produced not by taking pains but by having them...
Columnist Broun, fonder of Socialists than of socialites, at once cracked wise & down on Beebe, Peabody, and Groton, in his column It Seems to Me in the New York World-Telegram: "It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys...
...without trial, were necessary to suppress lawlessness. A "renegade labor-union cast-off" tried to organize the miners, but older workmen, working with Grant's friend, the chief of police, soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn mining engineer, sent to Mexico by the board of directors, report that the mines could produce more than they...
...investing operations. This is due both to Federal and State bank-examination policies and to the regulation of the Comptroller of the Currency governing investments by member banks. As to loans, many would-be borrowers cannot get deserved accommodation by the banks, not because the bankers are necessarily at fault, but because of the restrictions imposed upon them...
...Main fault of The Most Powerful Man in the World is that Author Roberts cannot make Sir Henri sinister enough. Instead of lurking behind the scenes, the chunky, ruddy, grey-haired old gentleman too often plumps right into the middle of things, sometimes with a letter to the London Times that reads like the outburst of one of P. G. Wodehouse's apoplectic baronets...