Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand, the letter was addressed to a union leader and enclosed an autographed photograph to be used in a drive for strike relief funds, which argues that Mr. Harding meant to rebuke the die-hard roads. The press has interpreted the letter according to its union or anti-union bias...
Lloyd Georgian newspaper displaying a pronounced bias are not popular with the press, but the Allegemeine has accepted all of them. The Eve ning Standard published in although a constant supporter Lloyd George in Coalition days, refused to print his articles on the ground of impolicy. The only Lon don newspaper which continues print his writings is the Daily Chronicle, which was purchased from Lloyds by his political friends...
...only basis for judgement, and the letters printed on another page supply those facts. Students who discuss the question may be assured of one thing; that President Lowell has not acted hastily, and that he has acted as he believes is best for all interests. Regardless of personal bias, everyone must acknowledge that his explanation of the principle on which he has acted is logical and liberal. In dormitories where residence is voluntary, any student is admitted, but in the case of the Freshman Dormitories, where all white members of the class are obliged to reside, the admission of negroes...
...gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could so brood over adopted progeny as to persuade at least a second paternity. When we consider the indelible Danish bias of the original, the success of this venture is as buoyant as it is inspiring...
...college training which this great theorist decries. But he expects colleges to work out their theories in practice, as he has had to work out his own ideas with inexhaustible patience and indefatigable toil in the laboratory. None of his results that have made history and given a bias to civilization was handed him on a tray. He had to go after what he got, and go after it hard, and keep it up after other men got cold feet and cried quits and lay down on the job. A word of wisdom from Edison comes with the full weight...