Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States, threatening the Monroe Doctrine, etc. But the point is not that she would have invaded America immediately. The point is that in a few years Germany, economic mistress of all Europe, and unquestioned military master, must inevitably have faced the United States, her rampant militarism vindicated to the detriment of pacific America. One wishes Mr. Millis had seen the implications of this argument; he might feel happier about the results...
Throughout the country the alumni bodies have often proved more of a detriment to American education than an asset. It is no empty stereotype that has pictured them as contributors to the volume of the college cheers, rather than to the cultural activity and educational advancement of their alma maters. This perennial collegiatism cannot be blamed on the earnest graduates so much as the empty spirit that has pervaded so many of our campuses from the beginning of the century. It is another example of the lack of perspective with which past generations of college men have been imbued...
...story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after feebly attempting to commit first robbery and then suicide, visiting Heaven before he comes back to Earth to beg forgiveness of Julie (Madeleine Czeray...
Also brought out to Taxpayer Mellon's detriment was the fact that on each of six occasions during this period when R. B. Mellon bought bank stocks, the amount of his expenditure was credited to him on Brother Andrew's books. When he sold bank stocks his receipts were debited on the account. To Government counsel that meant just one thing: Andrew Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, was trading in bank stocks under his brother's name...
...Italian professor is the representative of a kettle "which has crushed the rights of labor and debased culture." Then to prove that the kettle is really much sootier than the pot, the Executive Committee of the League charges that, at Columbia, the Casa Italiana has disseminated propaganda to the detriment of the university. The mildewed, but still applicable warning to those who live in glass houses rears its ugly head...