Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This problem of French 2 books has us worn to a frazzle. Razor blades we do not mind. "Ruy Bias" will neither rust nor sit on a windowsill indefinitely. Several years ago, while the Graduate Establishment of Business Administration was being built across the Charles, two undergraduates, having passed French 2, and mellowed by their celebrations, solved the problem. The Morgan Business Library was still a mess of foundations and holes, Feeling that a library of any sort should be built not only of bricks, mortar, gilt domes, but also of books, they did their part. Contractors arriving...
...they won't be collected a second time by a new government. There is order without law because the Cubans are a friendly people. . . . The situation in Cuba is a kind of passive anarchy." Far from passive last week was General Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey province. Last week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified...
Next thing Havana knew Son Bias and President Grau had come to terms. Father Bias abruptly left his rebel army in the field, journeyed to Havana with a "guard of honor" composed of Government troops he had been fighting a few days before. Cheered as he swaggered into the Presidential Palace to embrace President Grau, Captain Bias explained away his insurgence thus: "The trouble is that wherever I go inevitably a crowd gathers about us. About 300 did that last week and with the difficulties of communication added to the fact that none of us seems interested in telling...
...their case the arrangement would be more than a social amenity. It would afford them practical openings to view their prospective residences more or less from the inside, and thus to make their final choice of House with a clearer eye than that of mere prejudice and untimely bias. A Freshman inter-House eating prerogative would moreover give much encouragement to friendships between upperclassmen and first-year men, which could be of essential benefit, but which are scarcely flourishing at the present. Certainly, under the wide aegis of the House Plan, the dinner table has come to be a focus...
Meantime, from the hill rebellion in eastern Cuba began to come names of leaders. One was Colonel Juan Bias Hernandez whose name showed brightly on Ortiz' posters offering $500 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Airplanes had failed to spot Hernandez' hill hideout. His mounted band knifed swiftly again & again at government troops, ripped off a few and swerved back into the hills. Last week he challenged them, "Come...