Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bent, into public servants, was begun in 1887 with the founding of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroaders had collected the money, begged or bought the land, built and consolidated the lines. The Commission was established to prevent the railroaders: 1) from charging the public exorbitant rates, to the detriment of the public pocket; 2) from cutting each others' business throats, to the detriment of commerce; 3) from mishandling their finances, to the detriment of public transportation and of general business security...
...want to be connected with a navy that is only an average navy. What we need is a bigger and better navy. It is useless to belong to a navy that wins prizes for merely being average. An average navy is a detriment to the country...
...deeds in San Domingo. In less than three years, more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these politicians resulting from your influence. In consequence, a revolution starts, and then you call it a "bunch of bandits...
...that the principle of student government has come to be generally though not universally accepted, there being some who continue to look upon it as a mere corruption of student privilege and as a detriment to the efficiency of an institution, its regulations and practical control subject themselves to closer investigations. It is in this agency that Princeton undergraduates are proposing certain changes, in the hope that a renovated system will avoid any that a renovated system will avoid any such disturbance as marked the career of the Princeton Student Council during the present year, when it came into strained...
Highly organized graduate control, proselyting, the interest in college football taken by professional gamblers--these are symptoms of an alleged disease called overemphasis which is said to be agitating our institutions of higher learning, possibly to the detriment of their primary purpose...