Word: bias
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...trousers - after much dispute - are to be of blue cashmere, without bias, to recall the unprejudiced nature of the marking system. The blending of the red, white, and blue colors is intended to be a delicate tribute to our country, and to inculcate a deep patriotism in the heart of the wearer...
Miss Digge certainly did look sober, as she stood there in her "old gold" velvet dress, cut bias, and shirred all round, leaning against a bookcase just as she had seen Modjeska lean...
...deep regret at what they esteem the grave error of its eminent president in his endeavor to strengthen a sectarian school which is connected with the College by no necessary bond. So far as Harvard College has, or is supposed to have, a sectarian character, or even a sectarian bias, so far is its growth impeded, its proper work hindered, and its national influence diminished...
...religious thought, or they would be in danger of lapsing into rationalism and infidelity. Living in a country in which man is allowed to embrace such views as his conscience approves, it appeared ill-judged and not a little surprising, that a public speaker, having a strongly marked religious bias of his own, should thus express himself in regard to students at Harvard, who, as individuals, possess diversified ideas of faith and doctrine, either adopted by themselves or received by parental transmission...