Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said: "The NRA is simply a program of social better ment, nothing else; and industry can accept and endure this program on a large scale only after it has recovered, not before. ... As a matter of fact, it is universally impracticable, and if persisted in will become universally detrimental. . . . It would seem to me ... in view of the fact that the NRA is a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties, a danger to American ideals and institutions, a handicap to industrial recovery and a detriment to the public welfare, that the publishers of a free Press ought to tolerate...
...purpose of getting work done, but for the purpose of getting men through College. The fact that the donation puts those who accept it under obligation to the University is not a reason for the University to exert its rights, as it is now exerting them, to its own detriment...
...Exchange Control Bureau which stubbornly upheld the boycott last week. Hinting at possible U. S. reprisals, Vice President Basil Harris of U. S. Lines declared: "About 83% of the transatlantic trade today is of American origin. Any German policy which would restrict American trade would automatically react to the detriment of Germany. We hope Germany can see her folly before it has harmed her and harmed...
...would provide only for financial or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial security with doubled political control and meddling. Under the proposed evolution Mr. Roosevelt must go the "whole hog" or the Chicago teacheres will be pacified to the definite detriment of the secondary school system...
...difficulty of giving recalcitrant or stupid Tutees the benefit of the system without detriment to others more worthy has been a bone of contention over since the tutorial method of instruction was put into effect. The broad outlines of the problem should be familiar to all. The CRIMSON wishes merely to set forth its conclusions on the matter. First of all, it is apparent that the general examination should be a prerequisite to the A.B. degree. Individual course grades indicate practically nothing as to a student's mastery of his field. In consideration of the standards which...