Word: detract
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...experimental evidence whatever; the treatise is purely philosophical and deductive, reminding one of the works of the Phlogistonists of the sixteenth century, but based even more upon unproven postulates. Mr. Page's utter disregard for the scientific distinction between hypothesis, theory, and law, and his garbled manner of exposition detract from the philosophical as well as from the scientific value of his work...
...fact that the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Hopkins, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Stevens, and several other colleges have adopted it as a major sport. At both Annapolis and West Point it has been found advisable to play the lacrosse games before the baseball games in order not to materially detract from the attendance at the latter...
...Woodrow Wilson is one of the greatest men the world has ever produced. He was a great President. . . . His high place in history is secure and the adulation and mouthings of weaklings and demagogues can add nothing to or detract nothing from it."?Senator John Knight Shields of Tennessee, who (with only two other Democrats ?) voted against the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty in the Senate...
...York Tribune: "The ending is a trifle sentimental but this does not detract from the strength and beauty of Stella Dallas as a whole...
...symphony orchestra here prints a list of the compositions it has played in the 15 concerts that made up the recently closed season. This list presents certain peculiar features which should be added to the many singularities of St. Louis and might add to or detract from one's estimation of Mr. Rudolph Gans as an orchestra conductor...