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...theory of TIME as expressed by advertisements is attractive to thinking people-the facts of current history in condensed form without bias and without admixture of opinion and propaganda-but I do not find from reading a trial subscription that TIME fulfills the promise of its advertisements...
...challenge, on the ground of bias and prejudice, Brigadier General Albert J. Bowley." Mr. Reid particularized that General Bowley had addressed a meeting of (the American Legion in South Carolina and had said that the Infantry was the backbone of the Army, etc. General Bowley admitted the statement, but denied bias or prejudice in the case. The Court retired and sustained the challenge. General Bowley was excused and left the bench...
...better in homes; 6) less children's delinquency; 7) fewer cases of malnutrition among children; 8) liquor less accessible to children; 9) more drinking by young people; 10) less respect for law. "It cannot be too strongly insisted in evaluating such results that they are likely to reflect the bias of the person making the replies. On the other hand, it will be noted in the above tabulation that the order of favorable and unfavorable re- plies was reversed in the questions having to do with drinking among young people and with attitude toward law. This would seem to indicate...
...entertain a slight bias, he being director and chief librarian of the British Museum, a onetime (1917-21) President of the British Academy, a member of numerous societies and academies devoted to classical culture, a scholar deeply steeped in Oxford tradition and repeatedly honored by universities from Athens to Ohio...
...Spender, who recently wrote a biography of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,**; is a Liberal journalist of great repute. It will not be overpraise, taking due account of some Liberal bias and a few untenable observations, to say that The Public Life is the most important work of its kind which has been published in a decade...