Word: detract
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...impossible to be a complete gentleman with a deficit. In the once well-stocked cellar, impossible to be an educated one with the fear of affectation constantly driving culture to cover is sufficiently widespread to deserve comment. Though total abstinence from cultivation in accent and alcohol would detract from the epicureah values of complete living, to consider the first as the inevitable result of education and the second as the necessary complement of a gentleman's domestic arrangements requires the undue stretching of a doubtful point. The true education is free from affectation; the true "gentleman" may well be complete...
...pottery, textiles, lacquer and metal work of Japanese and English workers is especially noteworthy because in it is shown in America for the first time the work of a group of people who are wholly uninfluenced by methods of modern commercial production. In so far as these methods detract from the quality, beauty, and vitality of things made for personal or domestic...
...team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...
...temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently fortissimo rendition of the other man frays the nerves and should detract from his reputation...
...were they for the inventor of the gadget which supplied the spark, which exploded the gas, which made their cars go. The Bosch Magneto was referred to as "heart of the automobile," was considered its most important organ. That its inventor was a German did not in those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere...