Word: detracts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come to Massachusetts to help him in the campaign. Yet he has sponsored sound legislation creating the Hoover Commission, providing Federal aid for schools and health purposes, liberalizing immigration laws, and attempting to end the filibuster. This is the record of a low pressure conservative. It does not detract from Lodge's contributions to a sane American foreign policy...
...point of fact, however, the Crimson did nothing to detract from its advance billing as the best Harvard Squad since...
...does is detract from...
...impose its own restrictions upon the number of students enrolling in them? And why does the University see fit to grant any credit whatever for these courses? They certainly contribute not one whit to that education with which Harvard seeks to equip its students; on the contrary, they seriously detract from that education by occupying the students' time with senseless military trivia, and by attempting to inculcate them with values which are completely antiethical to those which Harvard tries to impart...
...producers of Five Fingers have added to this true-fantastic tale a number of fanciful touches that detract from the unadorned facts. The picture gives Cicero (James Mason) a beautiful, double-crossing Polish countess (Danielle Darrieux) as his partner in spying and smooching, and has him ending up in a luxurious South American hideout. The film also drags in a few standard cinematic suspense props, e.g., a charwoman accidentally sets off the alarm which Cicero has disconnected while rifling the embassy safe...