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Word: detriment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of its time on small, daily services to the undergraduates. Investigations and reports on instruction, housing, advising, and scholarships continue to take a back seat to football movies, ticket exchanges, activities bulletins, and charity collections. Just how the Council can fulfill its secondary, social service function, without detriment to its primary, advisory function, and how it should be organized to do this, will be discussed in tomorrow's editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

...understanding exists today. Instead, responsible officials and responsible reporters . . . are now playing cops & robbers ... in Foggy Bottom*. . . The object of the cops seems to be to conceal information. The object of the robbers [should be] to disclose information . . . Both sides [wage] their own private little cold war [to] the detriment of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cops & Robbers | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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