Word: biased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington Avenue is a residential street that cuts due north and south through the low rolling hills of The Bronx. It begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult...
...Brand, never before professionally performed in the U. S., at Litchneld, Conn.; a Booth Tarkington festival, supervised by Booth Tarkington and including Seventeen, Aromatic Aaron Burr, at Kennebunkport, Me.; Gallo-Shubert revivals at Jones Beach and Randall's Island, N. Y., Cleveland, Louisville; Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias at Central City, Colo.; and Paul Green's pageant, The Lost Colony, at Manteo, Roanoke Island...
Last week President Conant noted with satisfaction that the university had been acquitted of bias, told the committee it had exaggerated the misunderstanding, announced the Harvard Corporation had decided it would be "unwise and impractical" to reinstate the ousted instructors...
...Bias. When America, able Jesuit weekly, announced a contest to discover anti-Catholic bias in the U. S. press (TIME, March 7), the Christian Register (Unitarian) snapped: "The Roman Catholic Church represents the most powerful organization of bias anywhere to be found." Said Christian Century, liberal Protestant weekly, "There is something very dangerous about the doctrine that only the truth has a right to be heard." Said the Churchman (Episcopal): "A large section of the American press is having a bad case of jitters over the attitude of the Roman Church. ... It is a pitiful exhibition...
Philadelphia, who fought in the World War, did some advertising work before beginning, in 1921, the long, hard studies of a Jesuit. Ordained in 1931, he was assigned to America's staff four years ago. Believing that much of the U. S. press is biased, or uninformed, on Catholic matters, Father Toomey has in recent months written four articles on "propaganda" in the press. Last month, before the Bias Contest ended, he helped set up a Catholic organization to deal with erring editors...