Word: detract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries wahooed. The stand-pattingest of the standpatters smiled indulgently. At one burst of applause, the young man bowed deeply and said: "It is so unusual for a Republican from Wisconsin to receive applause at a National Republican Convention that I thank you most sincerely." Then, lest politeness detract from potency, he asked that the remark be stricken from the record. But everyone remembered the politeness and before the young man left the platform he had cause to take more bows, hand over heart, actor-fashion. Everyone enjoyed it and the thunderous "No" that soon buried the Minority Platform...
Lacking these two essentials, companionate marriage must be technically regarded as a form of courtship. Nor does this detract from its possible value. Sexual experience in courtship is looked upon by many modern moralists with the utmost disapproval; even "necking," they think, is disgraceful. Other moralists have defended premarital sexual experience of a more or less complete nature. More primitive people, in various ways, have practiced it. Recent "puritanical" criticism of companionate marriage has stimulated interest in a strange pastime, widely practiced among the early inhabitants of New England and known...
...scenery is adequate, does not detract from other actors, and the changings of settings are made rapidly...
...undergraduates, the majority of whom are honest, they can and do remain personally indifferent to what machinery is set up to prevent cribbing, as has been proved at Yale. On the other hand, the policy of no supervision is merely a concession to the minority, those who detract from the value of education and are themselves least in accord with the desired scholastic attitude...
Harvard is grateful. After having been told repeatedly that Harvard men are merely Ph.D.'s and section men it is comforting to be approached on the subject on one's personal glamour. The fact that many other colleges and universities are receiving the same honor does not detract from its value, for while a Yale movie star is conceivable even the cheeriest enthusiast has heretofore failed to prophesy a Harvard cinema idol...