Word: fault
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...Bingham observes, the fault lies with college presidents who have sat by, content to watch their institutions catapult to fame behind the artillery of big time football brigades. President Conant has declared his contempt for "professional teams maneuvering behind collegiate banners", and has proposed an endowment policy to rid Harvard's sports of their dependence on gate receipts. But unfortunately an endowment fund large enough to handle the A.A.A. annual $400,000 budget seems pitifully remote. Mean-while Harvard is at the mercy of other colleges whose standards may vary with the wind...
...days later Chairman John G. Winant of the Social Security Board, idealistic onetime Governor of New Hampshire, turned in his resignation to fight his fellow-Republican on the Social Security issue, at the same time telling President Roosevelt: "I have never assumed that the . . . Act was without fault...
...Nine Days A Queen" is, to a degree, disjointed in its sequences, a fault common to all but the finest historical movies. And it may seem that the production depends rather heavily upon pageantry, mass scenes, and the chopping block for its effect...
...will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin...
...Father Coughlin in Rome. Neither the Holy Father nor any of the high Vatican prelates ever discussed Father Coughlin with me. . . . I never said the Holy See fully approved of Father Coughlin's activities. I had no occasion to say that. But as the Vatican does not find fault, we can assume everything is hunkydory. There will be nothing done to restrain Father Coughlin's activities...