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Word: biased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jealous insistence of the press on the justice and liberality of Harvard's action, and its insistance that this action does not imply any dogmatic bias is a good omen for the future of liberal universities in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN REED | 5/24/1935 | See Source »

...writer realizes that, being an Arab, Mr. Antonius may be expected to present that case for the Arab opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine with a certain amount of justifiable bias. He hopes however, that the enlightened public opinion of the world at large, which shows so much sympathy toward the efforts of the Arab people to organize its life in politically free communities in the enormous areas of Arabia, Egypt, Irak, and Syria, and to progress there economically and culturally, will show an equal sympathy toward the efforts of the Jewish people to attain an analogous development in Palestine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Editor of the CRIMSON: | 3/28/1935 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over backwards into unfairness to the unjust. He is most like Mr. Wyndham Lewis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/3/1935 | See Source »

...weary proletariat ashore, the seamen mutinied. Playwright Wolf, a German Communist whom Adolf Hitler chased into Russia, has built a strapping propagandist melodrama out of the Cattaro incident. And, like the best dramatic works now being presented in the U. S. S. R., Sailors of Cattaro disguises its bias and adds to its interest with some penetrating Communist self-criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Visit | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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