Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened the cover of Pandora's Box and we may well be fearful of the issue. For example, in many schools American history may now be taught only in terms these self appointed patriots deem desirable. Teachers who will not prostitute their knowledge and convictions to the often ignorant bias of these worthies must find other jobs...
...last fortnight had a "prerelease" première, audiences were delighted to find all early white residents of their State, not excluding desperadoes, depicted as high-spirited, swashbuckling citizens in sharp contrast with those cheap chiselers, the Indians. Audiences elsewhere are likely to excuse the picture for its pardonable bias on the grounds of an entertainment value enhanced by King Vidor's vigorous treatment of a story largely concocted by himself, brilliant photography by Cameraman Eddie Cronjager...
...turns his imagination on the characters who fill his book and the combination of influences that have made him the individual he is and given him the point of view he holds. Like fragmentary warnings scattered through the volumes, they constantly remind the reader of the author's bias, warn him that Dos Passes' picture of reality has been colored by his personal experiences. After the chapter in The Big Money describing Charley Anderson's return to the U. S., The Camera Eye relates memories of Dos Passes' own homesick return after the War: spine stiffens...
...would consider proposals for new airmail contracts; and the fact that the canceled contracts were not reinstated, but new contracts were placed on a strictly competitive basis in accordance with the law; are conclusive evidence of the justice of the Government's position, and of the unfair, political bias of your conclusion...
...editorial Jolas says: "The world-crisis and its resultant suicidal nihilism and materialism is still running its historic course. Chiliastic schemers with a rationalist bias are vulgarising the issues...