Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education is a detriment to the men who are ultra brilliant, and the world is bound to lose...
...press. But he says, in the case of Bolshevists "we (and I suppose that here he means to constitute himself the judge of what the public thinks) have been forced to realize that these principles (i.e., freedom of speech and the press) have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit." The obvious moral is that in the case of Bolshevists the public weal (or Mr. Leach's interpretation of it) should supersede the law. But suppose the public-or some court-should get the idea that Mr. Leach's speeches and letters were...
...fathers of the Constitution. We will not give up our belief in the virtue of free speech, freedom of the press, and tolerance of all political ideas. But of late we have been forced to realize that in this special case these principles have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit. We were at a loss to reconcile our legal doctrines with our public interest. For the solution of this problem we have the Supreme Court to thank. W. B. LEACH...
...many ways it has been a very prosperous year. Following, as it did, directly on the great war, there were conditions to be met and problems to be solved which had never been confronted before. Prices and wages both soared-to the advantage of some; to the detriment of others. Those who were most prosperous during the past year were the producing class, the heads of great industries. These men reaped enormous profits, charging practically any price for their goods that they close, in spite of the fact that they had to pay out great wages. The wage earners constituted...