Word: distortive
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When President Truman called the Presidential primary system "eyewash," he was facing facts as well as inviting brickbats. For primaries are too diluted to give voters a real voice in selecting Presidential nominees, and their results often distort the nation's Presidential preferences...
...maintain the suspense very much longer. He must decide soon whether to apply the rule with hair-splitting rigor, whether to drop it altogether, or whether to take on the formal duties of adviser himself. Because the idea of sponsors seems here to stay, and because rigorous application would distort the rule's purpose, the Deans' Office should fill in as advisers until it can find faculty members or alumni willing to undertake...
...rest of the issue varies from dull to distasteful. John Hubbard's Prof--is a satire on the General Education trend-idea-few-fact method of teaching. It is no great trick to distort this theory and make it seem ridiculous, and that is all Hubbard has done...
...Communists, as usual, had managed to distort the case. The facts...
...Remain strictly amateur. Do not distort educational values. Take players who turn up in normal registration. Such a policy would probably cause the Crimson to drop out of the Ivy League if it adopted...