Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Stevenson has certainly done well to give to the English-speaking public such a diverting book, which presents the Court and the chief characters in the Court in their true perspective, without the bias of a La Bruyère, and which contains much sober comment on the depravities of the times, the inefficiency of doctors, and the wantonness of the French attack upon the Rhineland.† Moreover, it escapes the condemnation of reading like a translation, which is the best proof of the good scholarship of the editor and translator...
...believed them to be myths. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, chief anthropologist of the U. S. National Museum at Washington, expressed the opinion that the blonds were "just plain albinos." If they should turn out to be of mixed white and Indian blood and should also hail from the San Bias region of Panama, that fact would shatter the proud tradition of tribal purity which the warlike San Bias Indians have so long maintained...
...Senate, the bill was passed by a combination of Democrats and left wing Republicans. Therefore, it was essentially a Democratic bill with an insurgent Republican bias...
Liberalism in the last analysis is a state of the mind. Do what it will with the cumbrous formulae of entrance requirements, lectures, and schedules of courses no college administrative office can maintain a spirit of liberalism in the face of undergraduate bias, snobbery, or provincialism. Only by the origination and perpetuation of a tradition of student liberalism will the ideal college be translated into an actuality. Nor is it an answer that the undergraduate body can only reflect the spirit of the times. Since the middle ages Cambridge and Oxford have cherished a tradition of liberalism which has persisted...
...Senator's action must call up some interesting questions. Does farming develop impetuousness? Is radical bias ear-marked by wildness of behavior? The first is impossible to answer because in spite of the number of expert milkers in Congress, there are few professed farmers. The answer to the second must be no, for before and after the time Senator Sumner was eained many an exciting scene has been enacted within this august body by radical and conservative alike. Flying off the handle is ingrained in human nature and until evolution has evolved a race of intellectual and moral supermen, Congressmen...