Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With swift and decisive action last night the Student council threw itself into the melee occasioned by the virtual firing of Alan R. Sweezy '29, and J. Raymond Walsh, instructors in Economics. It voted 14-2 top sustain a resolution that political bias had not influenced either the Economics Department nor the Administration in the failure to promote Sweezy and Walsh...
...conscientious in judgment, and as frank and open in offering suggestions, as they possibly know how. Second, the men who write up the reports must interpret the sentiments of the group on the witness stand with accuracy, and must compile the information with clarity and absolute freedom from bias. With such a set-up on the part of both witnesses and recorders, it is to be hoped that the meetings to be held at the Crimson during the next few weeks will bear fruit in a more useful Confidential Guide than ever been issued before...
While Kuo Kuo gets more mysterious and unmanageable with her secret plans, Juan solaces himself with Harriet, a travel-book writer. That affair lasts until Harriet's professional duties call her away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...
...past few years killing the umpire at every close play has taken root because of the fear of bias in umpires chosen only by the home team. If visitors at Harvard crab decisions made by Harvard umpires, the Harvard bench must rise to protect its interests. At games away, on the other hand, the team must ride the officials in order to get a fair deal. Thus, by a subtly growing process, the bench turns into a concentration camp of hatred, and the professional spirit,--that the game must be won by whatever hook or crook comes in handy,--tends...
...partisan selection of umpires. But for the season now opening umpires are to be chosen by the A.A. from a list of officials approved by the New England Conference of Colleges, just as in hockey, basketball, and other minor sports. Hence-forth, then, the cry of unfairness and preconceived bias cannot be levelled at the umpires with any shred of justice or right...