Word: detracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of undergraduates cannot fail to be in agreement with such a viewpoint. The fact that this viewpoint was presented as palatable for a Phi Beta Kappa gathering does not detract from its value to the ordinary layman. Especially at Harvard, Georgian overtones carefully mingled with the muted chords of aristocracy must be balanced by a freer cadence, or an overpowering suffocation may cloud the symphony completely. In an environment such as the House Plan has created and will create, an environment beautiful in itself and of itself good, the student may have difficulty in remembering that...
...general, textbooks formats are becoming more attractive yearly, and do not detract in the least from the charm of well-filled bookcases...
...newsmen and "still" photographers were barred by Presidential order. From George Akerson, the President's secretary, was received this explanation of the exclusion: "In a case of this kind the President feels he is acting. He does not wish to be distracted and feels that an audience would detract from his best efforts...
...want, however, to detract at all from the great credit that is due to the Lowell Observatory for making the find. These men set up their great telescope, the 13-inch Triplet, the funds for which were donated by President Lowell, expressly to find the predicted planet and with great skill they managed to get its image on one of their photographic plates. Too much honor cannot be accorded such fine astronomical calculations...
...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...