Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...value of the appreciation of sport for its own sake could nowhere be better seen than in Saturday's game at Worcester. The University was defeated, 2-1, but it is no "philosophy of defeat", nor does it detract in any way from Holy Cross's ability, to say that anyone who judged the result entirely by the score was getting less than no idea of the game. Fifteen innings of baseball, everywhere spoken of as one of the finest ever seen on a college diamond, featured by brilliant playing on both sides, is an achievement regardless of the score...
...variety of reasons, was not as formidable against Yale as against the University. However, it is equally certain that Yale has a tremendously powerful and aggressive team, which knows football and which plays as a unit. The fact that Aldrich and O'Hearn are stars does not detract from the eleven's team play...