Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will feel a fabric, hold it to the light, pull it on the bias, pleat...
Perhaps the Student Committee to Investigate the Grading System did not realize the discussion would take the form of an adjudicatory proceeding. At any rate Committee counsel seemed prepared, and evidenced some signs of intimidation, though no formal charge of judicial bias was made...
...pilot whether he would prefer "the seat of his pants" or ILS for a landing with a 200-foot ceiling . . . It seems useless and senseless to blame a "gadget" for such a disaster, especially in view of the evidence, unless of course one is subject to an artistic antimechanical bias. Although it is possible that the thesis of man's superstitious dependence on his more complicated tools might be worthy of some literary development, this instance should not have provided the stimulus...
...traceable to incompetence and shortsightedness within the Sastroamidjojo government. It is true that there is better political and ad ministrative talent outside, most of it belonging to the Socialists. But even if The Socialists have better brains, they seem no less infected with the same blinding anti-Western bias. Anti-Westernism runs, too, through the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the country's largest, though both Moslems and Socialists are at least antiCommunist. Last week the Indonesian Minister of Information gave a small party for press attaches and foreign newsmen. The feature of the evening was movies - a short...
Although scheduled to speak on "The Roots of Socialist Bias in American Colleges," Flynn spent much of the evening defending his political opinions and accusing the federal government, particularly that of the Roosevelt-Truman era, of taking away the liberties of the American people...