Word: biases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About three hours out from Hongkong the British steamer Hydrangea was attacked by pirates, who, in the guise of passengers, overpowered the Indian guards, locked up the officers, ransacked the ship, robbed the passengers, grounded the steamer in Bias Bay, escaped to shore...
...than 10% would qualify, that probably not more than 5% would give satisfaction if employed. ¶ Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, spoke from the standpoint of anthropology: "In coldblooded, scientific language our best stock is threatened with extinction." Nevertheless, he opposed the "bias of this country in favor of the Nordic immigrant. This is a mistake. Selective immigration would prevent such a mistake and take from healthy, sound families the type we want. I believe that in Italy and in the Balkans there can be found desirable types of future Americans...
Therefore one expects to find a bias, a slant towards one point of view with which the author is best able to deal, and in this case it is towards the Philosophical. One feels often, as one does in reading the "Achievement of Greece," that too few great artists have spoken in detail on the sculpture, the architecture, the painting and the pottery of the Achaeans. For Genius may talk to Genius across a waste of years, and without words; everyday man can only mechanically analyze and expose--which is, in sum, not art, but archaeology. But this...
...settle who is and who is not to blame for the great ruction in the Ruhr is a task too great for the average man. And yet the average man is likely to settle it very nicely in his own mind on the second-hand information and bias of his particular daily newspaper. For one who has not been able to travel abroad and study the problems at first hand, this is practically his only means of reaching a conclusion. There is one other way--to gather first hand information from the talk of one who has been able...
...What of the American newspapers? Upton Sinclair, of course, is ready with an answer in "The Brass Check", but perhaps it is pardonable to accept his word as contributory not final judgement. Mr. King has declared that the American press is efficient and free from bias. Of the former there can be no doubt; time and again the great newspapers of the country have astonished the American family at the breakfast table by their marvelious exploits. But it is hard to believe that the latter claim is quite true. "In America" says Mr. King in support of his contention "even...