Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violations of the rules were few and that penalties were imposed. "The players," said F. W. Murphy, umpire and field judge, "conducted themselves in a sportsmanlike manner." The Harvard Crimson declares that "no matter how honest they are flimsy lists of incidents like Hubbard's, based on circumstantial and partial evidence, cannot stand up," and it makes this point...
...referee to indicate that Princeton-Harvard games are in any way distinct from other games on the Harvard schedule in cleanness of play. This silent record is conclusive. Against it, no matter how honest they are, flimsy lists of incidents like Hubbard's; based on circumstantial and partial evidence, cannot stand up. It is easy to refute them as it is to make them. The only purpose they serve is the creation of further animosities and heated argument...
...although any can be made to serve. One is to distribute reviews evenly among the prominent volumes of the prominent publishing houses. This assures a wide range of books much as a lottery involves a wide range of numbers. It is a method to which business harmony demands a partial but not a rigid conformity. Again, it is possible to select the volumes for review from among the most widely advertised books of the month. A college public, however, would be the first to realize this a specious device. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the student...
Nonchalant, His Royal Highness took a six-room suite at the Waldorf, paid for it a week in advance, then left for a week-end visit at Pawling, N. Y., with a fellow explorer-huntsman, Lowell Thomas, partial biographer of Britain's mysterious hero of the Palestine campaigns, Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (TIME, July...
...price of the Album, as before, will be $9 until March 1, but will jump to $10. Partial remittance may be made at the time of subscription, but the balance is due before April...