Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of Jefferson's carefully elaborated theory of democratic education, America, in the name of the equality of men, has allowed her higher institutions of learning, her secondary schools, colleges and universities alike, to be clogged with a mass of reluctant, if not inferior minds, to the detriment of the best and with comparatively little advantage to the worst material there congregated. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University was recently reported as stating that 78 per cent of the college students of Columbia--undergraduates--remain in Columbia University or go to some other university for graduate and professional study...
...protection. Such inference is entirely unfounded for no one of the officers of the American Bond & Mortgage Co. knows Vice President Curtis, or even met him. Furthermore, the inference that the American Bond & Mortgage Co., or any of its officials had acquired properties financed by the company to the detriment of the bondholders, is likewise without justification, for the American Bond & Mortgage Co. took over properties only when the owners were unable to meet the obligations to the bondholders and it then invested its own money in the properties for the purpose of protecting the bondholders...
...book becomes interesting but unreliable because no one can predict on so vast a scale and expect to be believed. However, the weighing of the respective strengths and weaknesses of socialism and capitalism is particularly good and saves this last part of the work from becoming a distinct detriment...
...work have never heard of the Green Look Society, of the Back to the Campus Committee, or of the Alpha Kappa Beta Fraternity upon which he has lavished his time. The numerous council meetings which had to be attended on the nights that reports fell due, to the detriment of reports, are things of the past to the graduate. They are pleasant memories, perhaps, if the student happens to fancy brilliant harangues as to the merit of his fellows as dance-committeemen. But it is reasonable to expect the acquisition of more than pleasant memories from...
...author in the first paragraph, "is a deliberately restricted and selective treatment of an inexhaustible subject." It is addressed to the aggressive feminist who in the upward swing of woman's reaction from the past attempts to find a place in man's field of activities to the detriment...