Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epilepsy was a disease with understandable causes. With "Margery" the problem may be physiological rather than psychological. It will at once be objected that Doctor Crandon, "Margery's" husband, is himself a capable physician who has investigated, always with psychic conclusions. Doctor Crandon, however, approached the problem with a bias and his special interest casts doubt upon his testimony...
Saar Basin. A protest by Germany charging that France compelled German children to attend French schools in the Saar area in an effort to bias them politically was discussed by the Council. Eventually, a plebescite is to decide whether the Saar Basin (rich coal area) is to belong permanently to France or Germany; hence the German fears...
...Student, lately rejuvenated intercollegiate newsweekly, of no visible party bias, last week published its own, semi-complete survey of "the political fervor in the colleges." It found that this fervor seemed to de- cline "in proportion to the distance of the institution from Washington, D. C." Republican headquarters had reported 300 active Coolidge clubs, the result of expenditures by Chairman Butler. The Davis College League listed 100 clubs. The LaFollette forces, lacking literature, had created no clubs directly, but clippings from the undergraduate press convinced the editors of The New Student that there were as many La-Follette as Davis...
...TIME is a digest of fact. It professes to have no bias. It professes it is not trying to "lead" anyone anywhere...
...correct. These small-town papers must in general be placed in a category separate from the metropolitan press. Their power is wielded rather through their news than through their editorials. These papers as a whole gobble up the "news" releases of their respective parties' publicity bureaus. Because their bias is presented as "news," it has thrice the effectiveness politically of the same partisanship confined to the editorial page...