Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been tessed into the camp of what he calls the "middle-aged moralists" by the declaration of the vice-chancellor of Oxford that the most agreeable quality of the modern student is his excellent deportment and beautiful manners. Disclaiming the idea that his views had been given a rosy bias by the environment of Oxford, he denied the implied strictures of the saying that "Oxford gave the world marmalade and a manner, Cambridge science and sausage...
...Annela L. Bailey, the music store clerk, young, bobbed, pretty, smartly dressed, was asked if she had any bias. "Certainly not," said she. "It really didn't interest me." All she knew was what she had not understood in the headlines. She was accepted as a jury member...
Pirates. Several British warships moved silently across Bias Bay in the vicinity of Hongkong, landed 150 sailors who blew many pirates' homes to bits with dynamite. The punitive expedition was made to end the pirates' buccaneering, which had recently assumed the aspect of a scourge...
...about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I soon was able to gather that he was the Presiding Judge, but even then I did not know his name. . . . One morning at breakfast I particularly remember because it seemed to me that Judge Thayer at that time exhibited his prejudice and bias in the most notable manner. On this morning he either came to the table where I was sitting and asked if he could have breakfast with me, or he called me to his table and asked me to have breakfast with him. He immediately began to talk again about...
...very sorry that the limits of his study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history, is to be found in "The Rise of American Civilization", only in the degree to which it may best blend with the political history, the social history, the intellectual history...