Word: detrimental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be a thorough contribution to the knowledge of the world through productive scholarship and intelligent research on the part of its faculty and graduate students. For this reason a balance between these two goals must be achieved, so that one aim does not obscure or act to the detriment of the other. Today at Harvard the art of teaching has been subordinated to the function of research, and the balance between the two should be restored...
...last week an archaic Union regulation, that no oranges or apples can be given out uncut, has been enforced for the first time this year, to the detriment of the Yardlings' midnight snacks and orange fights. Sharp contrast to this is seen in the House dining halls, where oranges, apples, bananas, and even grapefruit are doled out gratis and uncut...
...suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger. At present no one can point an accusing finger at the tutoring schools of Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn stating categorically that they constitute a harmful situation and tend to hurt rather than help the best interests of the University. This is not the case nor has it been...
Heavy though the atmosphere of genealogical respectability in James Talcott, Inc. may be, it has never been a detriment to trade. In the past ten years the annual volume of Talcott business has grown from $11,000,000 to $68,000,000 and is currently running at the rate of nearly $100,000,000 per year. To finance this expansion, Talcott turned to the public for the first time last spring, selling $1,500,000 worth of preferred stock. Last week it again went to the public, this time with an issue of 100,000 shares of common stock...
...rear wheels. Practically all truck makers have plumped for C. O. E. Profiting by the experience of automobile makers who rushed too fast into streamlining, most truck makers have adopted it only in modified form. Modern trucks move fast enough to make streamlining worth while. But it has one detriment-curved body corners cut down space within...