Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brooklyn, N. Y., makes attar of roses; Bulgaria suffers. Flushing, N.Y., makes citronella; to Java's detriment. Newark, N. J., makes vanillin against vanilla from Seychelle, Mexico and Reunion.† New Jersey ivroid harms African ivory, its bakelite, Central American mahogany. Delaware makes amber (East Prussian commodity) substitute...
Shame on TIME! The idea of you allowing your columns to be used as a means of spreading propaganda for the medical profession to the detriment of other schools. It just goes to show that even TIME can be hoodwinked...
...advent of the 24-hour newspaper (morning and evening editions), he is first complacent: "In those cities in which I own either all of the newspapers or the only newspaper, the reading public and the advertisers are satisfied that this single ownership has not worked ... to the detriment of the community...
...been said and many opinions aired about the value of college training in business procedure. Until recently the dominant note seems to have been that college training is by no means necessary to business success, and some have gone so far as to say that it is almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...note to Consul Dominguez. "In that statement," he said, "the term 'Mexican General' was used in no way referring to the genuine Mexican generals who have shown ability and valor, but to the guerilla generals in Mexico, who for many years have infested that country to its detriment...