Word: detract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard S. Dolins '55, Lowell House Dance Chairman, was skeptical of the plan, saying that "it will detract from the dignity of the dance to have stags. However, if there aren't too many, it ought to be an interesting little situation...
...wish at any time to detract from the many fine contributions Mr. Hastie has made to the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Douglas W. Hunt '55 (PBHA president...
...athletic director said he had sent Jordan a letter in which he wanted to make it clear that Cornell was not trying "to detract one iota from Harvard's performance on Saturday. Harvard outplayed us and deserved...
...reputation for humor is at once Owen's greatest asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian...
These small adverse criticisms in no way detract from the value of the first complete, factually correct biography, that has been written of Savage, his society, and friends...