Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter of a Monte Carlo cocotte, her contemporaries speak of her with awe and respect, consider her the dressmaker's dressmaker. She achieves a classic elegance of line at the expense of color. To make her gowns cling to the figure she cuts her materials on the bias. A couturier for nearly 40 years, she designs her models on a famed wooden doll...
...this Lord Rothermere replied in the same issue of the Daily Mail: "I never thought that a movement calling itself 'Fascist' could be successful in this country. . . . I never could support any movement with an anti-Semitic bias, any movement which had dictatorship as one of its objectives or any movement which will substitute a 'corporate State' for Parliamentary institutions in this country. . . . The assistance which I rendered you was given in the hope that you would be prepared to ally yourself with the Conservative forces to defeat Socialism at the next and succeeding elections...
...China little boys still have the chance of growing up to be pirates. Bias Bay, No. 1 Pirate Centre of the world, is today as unsafe for peaceful merchantmen as the Spanish Main or the Barbary Coast ever were. Because Chinese pirates often disguise themselves as passengers, ships plying in those dangerous waters are fitted with "anti-piracy grilles" that screen off the deck-passengers from the rest of the vessel, prevent surprise attacks. Until last year, piracy was unknown along China's northern coast. Then one March morning pirate junks attacked the British-owned coasting steamer Nanchang, waiting...
...whole, although the returns of the poll must be interpreted with extreme care, the fact that college students in general have no immediate are to grind which might otherwise impart a bias to their innermost convictions should make it more than usually trustworthy. In any case the poll will indicate conclusively whether or not Harvard's traditionally conservative student body leans to the left or right, since, broadly speaking, this is the only issue which can be satisfactorily settled considering the broad scope of the more pertinent of the two questions...
...hours later the wreck of the Fulton, still flaming, was being towed to Hongkong by two Admiralty tugs under escort of another British warship, and Bias Bay was clear of all ships except the Norwegian freighter Norviken steaming slowly southward from Foochow. Suddenly 22 Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...