Word: detract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normalcy; Stewart marries Jane Wyman, a newspaperwoman who has been involved throughout. A great many other things happen during this march of events, such as a basketball game, a Saturday night dance in a high school gymnasium, and a genteel love scene or two, but none of them detract enough from the main line to provide salvation for the picture as a whole, entertaining as they may be locally...
House objections on this score are hardly justified. Only on the crowded weekends will dance competition occur, and this year's examples of the Dartmouth and Princeton sellouts should assure the Houses of excellent sales under similar conditions. A delaying argument on this point would detract from the encouraging forward movement of both parties toward a necessary and beneficial harmony...
Doubtless all this comes under the headings of Spectacle and Epic Drama, and loud and thunderous background music does nothing to detract from this conception. But to the less impressionable moviegoer it will probably seem little more than a glaring example of Hollywood gone hog-wild on the road to nowhere...
Cast with Australian players, the level of acting falls below the high standard generally set in English pictures, yet the slight amateurism does not detract greatly from the overall effect of the picture. Chips Rafferty as the tall, gaunt trail boss, can both act and ride, giving an excellent picture of a single-minded bush rider. "The Overlanders" admirably combines simple historical fact with a feasible amount of action to become one of the few examples of a vivid and unprocessed documentary film. The only annoying moment during the picture is the indignant attempt of the Boston Censors to seratch...
...liquid life saver when it is needed most, PBH has once more started solicitations for donors to lend the use of a vein for a little while when the Red Cross mobile unit pays a visit on April 10, 11, and 12. The nurses with the needles don't detract from anyone's pocketbook, and the operations leave no harmful after-effects. A few minutes of quiet blood-letting on the part of 300 students and teachers will satisfy the University's responsibility toward meeting a community quotient, which, if reached, will assure every temporary and permanent Cambridge inhabitant...