Word: detrimental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beside correcting such evils as irregularity of service and irregularities in paying the creditors of the organizations, any report should make it impossible for one group to break the rules to the detriment of their competitors. This is the time for strong action to assure a permanent and equitable solution to the problem...
Conforming to Hollywood standards in settings, songs (mostly by Rodgers & Hart), dances and costumes. Evergreen even has a backstage plot. It shows its heroine, the ambitious daughter of a retired stage favorite, becoming a star by pretending to be her mother. The impersonation, carried on to the detriment of her own intrigue with a young press agent and to the feverish anxiety of her stage manager (Sonnie Hale), ends when, on a gala opening night, she removes her white wig and does a modern dance routine which first alarms, then enchants her audience...
...probable that she will never marry. . . . Her training and genius should not be forced, for she is easily made nervous and her mind can be excited to her detriment; in which case she is restless, her control is lost, and she may be more than sarcastic. . . . There is a divergence of views about her and these views will have some publicity. . . . Indeed it looks as if this year should be spent in retirement with as little effort as possible to attain further prominence. . . ." For her tenth birthday, three days after her Manhattan concert, Ruth's horoscope was read again...
...scattered among the numerous groups which make Parliament look like a kaleidoscope. They pass their time fighting among themselves to achieve a power [as Premier] which it is impossible for them to use well or usefully when they have obtained it. Is not all this to the great detriment of public welfare? I ask you and I leave you to judge...
Among some of the benefits which the students conferred upon themselves was a nifty street-lighting system in the vicinity of Fraternity Row to the detriment of the more refined portion of Amherst which was compelled to find its way home by the light of uncertain kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible...