Word: biases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week the little U. S. gunboat Fulton, carrying a complement of 186 officers and men under Commander Harry D. McHenry, was cruising in as ugly a bit of water as lies off the coast of China. Bias Bay, 50 miles northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped...
...beginning to feel the need of an editorial page, and inventing an "overflow of comment, correction, controversy, and information" in which, by careful selection and arrangement of the letters printed, you can guide readers' thoughts? I had always valued TIME precisely because of its pristine lack of bias. Don't tell me that now, swelled with the sense of power which your more than 450,000 readers give you, you are planning to Arnold public opinion...
...avoid charges of bias they had the Independent Journal of Columbia send out a questionnaire to 2,560 members of the American Economic Association, had the 845 answers tabulated and analyzed by the secretary of the American Statis tical Association. Questions on which there were clear majorities...
...material offered in the CRIMSON on these matters. As for your articles on Norfolk, you simply do not know what you are writing about Your article is one-sided, shows an ignorance of the facts and real issues involved (which are not Hurley vs. Gill) and a most personal bias which is unworthy of and unbecoming to a journalist...
...Taylor appropriately remarks and as all the papers themselves show, the separation of recovery and reform in the present state of affairs is impossible. It has been my object to show how under the cover of devoting exclusive attention to recovery the authors have inevitably developed a bias toward reform as well--a bias which is of fundamental importance in influencing the judgment one may form of the economic and social policies of the Roosevelt Administration...