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Word: biases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a duty which imposed itself upon Levy. Trained lawyer that he is, and possessing an experience gained in more than 30 years of practice, he should have appreciated instantly that his dealings with Manton had been such that . . . they might well be calculated to warp or bias Manton's judgment. . . . Had Manton's colleagues upon the court been advised of the connection existing between him and Levy, it is unthinkable that either of them would have sat with Manton upon the appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disbarred | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...National Advisory Council on Academic Freedom ironically termed it--has been charged on every hand with turning reactionary and with limiting academic freedom. After all, Mr. Greene could have expected no other effect when he made his decision. Most of his critics are too earnest in their bias to see the true nature and logic of the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IS ATTACKED | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Knights of Columbus denounced your magazine for its anti-Catholic "bias" last August at the Seattle Supreme Convention, which I attended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the library is heavily biased in favor of the graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those of his subordinates would now be examined for lack of bias as the nation watched his "every effort" to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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