Word: detract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolles admitted that the reduction might detract from the performance of the team, but asserted that this risk was more than offset by the savings it represented of about...
Gary's recognition of its educational shortcomings and the improvements made so far are laudable. They do not make Gary high schools into preparatory academies. Neither do they detract from the excellence of the many extracurricular activities, nor do they eliminate the "fun" aspect of Midwestern high school life...
...Linus Pauling and I are on opposite sides regarding the nuclear tests, but this does not detract from our respect for each other. I am enraged by your footnote re him. It is in keeping with McCarthyism...
...present organization--effectively a potential big-business concern hiding behind illegitimate academic immunities--can only arouse the anger of Cambridge merchants, detract from the freedom of undergraduate enterprise, and perhaps endanger the tax status of the University...
...motivation is made clearer. But it is the figure of Stanislaw that holds the book together, and in him Bankowsky has created a near-tragic embodiment of guilt. The flaws in this novel-occasional sentimentalism, and a needlessly interjected chapter set a generation in the future-do not detract from its great, raw impact...