Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monthly and the New Republic approached the question with dignity and understanding. In an editorial, "A Catholic President?" the New Republic says: "If Governor Smith is to have any chance for the [Democratic] nomination, he cannot continue for long to remain silent on questions about which his Catholicism may bias his American statesmanship. . . . Governor Smith can surely make it plain that he is willing to answer any honest and pertinent question about the relationship between his religion and his politics. That is the only way to lay the ghost of the Catholic menace. . . . Not until it is as easy...
...neither Harvard nor Princeton need take this dictum too much to heart, for other choices among the Yale senior statistics arouse suspicion of bias or weakness of judgement. For why should "Shef" rank Greta Garbo high among the beloved actresses of the screen, at the same time entirely neglecting Lya de Putti? Since the attractions of these two charming ladies are closely allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will...
...receiving general condemnation. An Associated Press dispatch carries the headline. "Majority Opposed to Hopkins Ideas". Almost without exception this "majority opposed" is made up of professional coaches. When the source of a man's salary is attacked he will of course arise to defend it. While the personal bias thus introduced is quite natural it destroys any weight the opinion might otherwise have...
Such a statement seems to be on a feminine bias, to indicate that the Vassar regime emphasizes too heavily the leadership of wives, while husbands are simply taught to be 'better...
Further compliments to M. Tchitcherin included reference to his "nervous mind," his "preference for bad over good sources of information," and his "malevolent bias which makes pure invention the basis or support of his policy...