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Word: detriment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed is the charge of a new coach who, although very able and a keen student of the game, is unfamiliar with the talents or even the names of his players, and who, because of other responsibilities, must be in New York one day out of every week. The detriment to Harvard hockey and to Harvard sports in general through Mr. Bingham's move is greater than any justification he might have on moral grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham's Penalty Box | 1/16/1942 | See Source »

Lack of ice is no detriment to Coach Clark Hodder and his hockey squad. For over a week now the skaters have been working out on the indoor ice of the Boston Skating Club, in preparation for the winter's tough work ahead of them...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Three Good Lines in Prospect as Hockey Season Opens; 1944 Strengthens Squad | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

...Europe against the Germans considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe -and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future-will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: STRATEGY: Whistling for Action | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...seemed unlikely that Ecuador could stop the advance. Unless theoretical Good Neighbors of both did something about it fast, the bigger of these Bad Neighbors might solve the boundary dispute by swallowing the smaller fellow next door. And that might start grabbing all over South America, to the detriment of hemisphere solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: PERU CONTINUES TO FIGHT ECUADOR | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...Ickes once said: "The beet sugar industry has no justification for existence. It is kept alive by artificial means and is a detriment to itself and the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mr. Pierson Pitches Woo | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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