Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book on the problem of living, written with a poetic beauty that does-not detract from its soundness. As entirely original contribution is the field of psychoanalysis...
...applause for the quick-witted young hero, the Arlington Players opened the week with the first performance of "Shawn Rhue", an Irish drama in four acts by William L. Murphy. The ups and downs and the honest, Industrious Donovan family progressed all too obviously; but how little that need detract from real melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions were offered the actors from the floor...
...time is necessary to learn how to hang on to the ball that there isn't enough time left to spend on the technique and development of the game. I am opposed to such a change, and I believe most other people feel the same. Such a change would detract attention from the fundamentals of the game, and a football team that doesn't know the fundamentals isn't a football team. As far as the spectators' view-point is concerned, a game without fumbles would not have half the interest that it has now. I can name any number...
Just so much the more, then, is Yale University fortunate in its recent acquisition of the new Harkness Memorial. The group of buildings have been exceptionally handled in every phase of workmanship; even the fact that they cover a city block does not detract from their gracefulness, divided as they are into separate quadrangles and courts after the fashion of Oxford and old Cambridge. What is more interesting still, these same buildings, besides being excellent examples of architectural beauty, are consigned to a useful existence as dormitories. In this way yale's problem of housing all the students in college...
...rise in grandeur, as it were, from the very heart of the Freshman dormitories, and dominate the entire surroundings by their size and height. They serve a utilitarian purpose to be sure but hardly an artistic one. And yet they must needs remain although it is obvious that they detract rather than add to the scenery...