Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission does not regard this prospect as calamitous. To the neo-Malthusians, who assert that the world population is outrunning its food supply, the commission report makes this answer: "The danger that a shortage of foodstuffs entering the world markets may continue indefinitely to the serious detriment of countries whose populations have outstripped their own agricultural resources cannot, we think, be rated higher than a possibility...
...second phase of "the German problem" is economic. Trade between East and West in Europe is meager, clearly to the detriment of both sides. Now that the Foreign Ministers are going to discuss Germany, they will doubtless talk about trade as well. If arrangements can be made to foster the exchange of eastern German raw materials and foodstuffs for industrial products of the western zones, it would be a wholesome beginning to a general relaxing of the unofficial dual blockade of the Continent, and that in itself would ease the "cold war" tensions in jittery Europe...
...defended administrative approval of proctored exams on the grounds that taking too much advantage of the honor system's freedom of time is to the detriment of the student...
...West is dealing with too many rightist governments even now--a fact that gives the Communists excellent propaganda. And de Gaulle's leadership would be highly nationalist, to the detriment of Western cooperation on both economic and military planes...
...project is already under way, a promising intramural sports program. This has been absent in a great big way--to the indirect detriment of House athletics. The effects of a vigorous sports program in the Yard should show up next year in the Houses, when an athletically-minded '52 moves south...