Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...
...Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept it without compliance with its spirit will in all probability be able to find loopholes by whch they will be able to maintain their pledged word without serious detriment to their enjoyment. The only cases where a pledge to "obey law" will accomplish its purpose will be among those who are willing to cooperate in all particulars with the spirit of the faculty's policy. Until the mass of student opinion conforms with his last category, no authoritative pressure...
Further Provisos. 1) Panama will suppress any radio apparatus set up within her borders upon notice from the U. S. that it is to the detriment of the defenses of the Canal. 2) Upon due notice, the armed forces of the U. S. may proceed into or through Panama, even in peace time, for "maneuvers or other military purposes." 3) The flight of U. S. military aircraft over Panama shall be unrestricted, but other foreign aircraft shall be regulated with the cardinal purpose of protecting the Canal. 4) The U. S. receives in perpetuity the "use, occupation and control...
...rigidly the athletic policies of the schools, indicates that the feeling against over-emphasis of sports is spreading from the colleges to the preparatory schools of the country. Prompted by the conviction that athletics were playing too large a part in the life of the average student, to the detriment of other more vital interests, the authorities have curtailed schedules, regulated the conduct of individuals in athletic events, and restricted membership on teams...
...amiable close last week amid continued, portentous secrecy. As he took ship to sail across the Black Sea to Constantinople, the swarthy dandified Tewfik Rushdi Bey assured newsgatherers that Turkey and the Soviets are now in diplomatic concord, adding darkly: "Turkey does not favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin...