Word: detractions
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...mere announcement that Remington Rand is instrumental in presenting the feature should be priceless advertising for the sponsors. Additional advertising announcements detract from the favorable impression first created. . . . A. F. McCRORY...
...those sports which do not permit of extensive last minute substitution; also, in the case of men who are kept from the final encounter by illness, greater latitude in making the award should be permitted. Such changes would be a step toward a saner system, and would not detract in the least from the popular appeal of the Yale rivalry...
...marriage has been winning along a wide front for quite a while. He identifies the artist's inspiration with religion, which is sound enough, and recognizes that Communism is a religion, which is unimpeachable. That he commits a number of fallacies in his eloquence does not in the least detract from his effect, for all such theses as his, both pro and con, transcend logic and are not subject to it. Still, the history in his penultimate paragraph is flatly wrong, and it is silly to say that a capitalist artist must cut himself off from the principles of true...
...vegetable dealers. She was by this time thoroughly frightened, was thinking of betraying her husband. Driving into Texas she picked up three hitchhikers, Luther Arnold, his wife, and their 12-year-old daughter, Geraldine. She induced Arnold to let her keep the girl, thinking that her presence would detract suspicion. Then she persuaded Arnold to get in touch with her lawyers. She explained that two of the defendants on trial for the Urschel kidnapping in Oklahoma City, Farmer Shannon and his wife, were her parents. Arnold was to find out what Prosecutor Herbert K. Hyde had done about her offer...
...privilege. Phillips Brooks House officials predict that the number of commuters who would take advantage of this privilege would not be large. This number would be assigned among the seven Houses. It seems unlikely that the presence of these outside students in the libraries from time to time would detract from the House life. And at the same time it seems unfortunate that the House library facilities should not be used to the fullest extent. The committee therefore recommends that the non-residents be offered this paid privilege...