Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a broader problem involved. Events in more sports than one are forcing the conclusion that Graduate Advisory Committees are as much of a detriment as a help. There is a growing feeling that a system which allows such Committees to hold coaches absolutely at mercy and to make or break contracts practically at will, is wrong in theory and in practice. A far better field of usefulness would seem to lie in the system which has long been in vogue in football and which has just been adopted in track...
...which is to teach that city a "lesson" for the prosecution of I. W. W. members under the criminal syndicalism law of California. The Wobblies would start a "reign of terror." The members would invade the city, fill the jails, start a free speech campaign, parade to the detriment of Sacramento's pride and complacence...
...Foster's type" and their efforts to " bore from within " the Federation by means of " internal cliques" such as the Trade Union Educational League. "If these men had all the gold of the capitalist class in their pockets they could not better serve the capitalists to the detriment of the working man than by doing just what they are doing," said Mr. Gompers...
Women mayors were elected in the village of Thebes, Ill. (population, 1920, 857) and the town of Humboldt, Kansas (population, 1920, 2,525). The new mayor of Humboldt, Miss Louise Fussman, declared following the election: " I have learned that women can engage in politics with no detriment to themselves and with considerable satisfaction...
...stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon-drivers practiced frantically with their twenty-foot whips to the detriment of the shop windows and passing pedestrians. The town took on a sombre aspect. No one knew what the future held for this quiet, determined band of men who left the town of Moab to fight the Indian on his own ground...