Word: biases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressed by the huge circular earrings affected by Balinese ladies, the costumes of dancing girls, their fans and lavish headgear. His line drawings, particularly one of two dancers called Legong, were graceful and more colorful than his paintings, which had the air of East Indian fashion plates. With pardonable bias, Muralist Diego Rivera, for whom Covarrubias once lugged water jugs in Mexico City, said: "Covarrubias has now reached the age at which a man's face occasionally becomes overcast and in which his work grows in profundity...
Like all dissertations upon secondary education, the article contains many arguments that are valid. But the author is writing too frequently from the bias of his profession. He hopes to inculcate a thorough knowledge of English Grammar in a boy which in itself is a laudable ideal, at the expense of foreign languages. In defense of this tenet the lawyer cites the elementary language courses at all universities which are more repetitions of a secondary preparation. The time spent on these subjects would be better applied to the Mother tongue in view of the collegiate regurgitation. What Mr. Morawetz...
Died. William L. McLean, 79, onetime Pittsburgh newsboy, publisher since 1895 of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; of old age; in Germantown, Pa. Lest it bias his editorial views he would have no business interest but his paper. He saved big headlines for big news, shunned premiums as circulation boosters, was first to distribute newspapers by automobile...
...lunch. When it came back from lunch it began to hear the case against Magistrate Jesse Silbermann, also impugned by the Seabury in- vestigation, also on the Women's Court bench. Mr. Seabury contended that Magistrate Silbermann was in cahoots with shysters, had been guilty of "bias, prejudice and conspiracy to defeat justice...
...white man myself and some of my best friends are Negroes. Ordinarily I pay little attention to evidences of ignorant race prejudice, but when a magazine which boasts of accuracy and lack of bias publishes a statement like the above, I am surprised and shocked...