Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger steamship into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family spend vacations at this castellated arsenal but very seldom have visitors. A careless cigaret would blow the place to smithereens...
Three thousand surgeons drifted into Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week. It was easy to see that they were surgeons, not physicians. The physician is apt to be benign, a trifle careless of his dress, slow in speech. The surgeon, on the other hand, tends to talk swiftly, dress meticulously, gesture boldly. There are always more evening clothes at a surgeons' meet than at a physicians'. This was the American College of Surgeons, at its 21st annual clinical congress...
...artist in essentials, Inventor Edison was absentminded, often unkempt, given to laconic epigrams, careless about money. Having accepted "thirty thousand" for a new kind of transmitter bought by a British company, he was astonished at being paid in pounds, not dollars. He afterward received this letter from George Bernard Shaw: "I have the honor, sir, to inform you that you have now destroyed all the privacy in Great Britain...
Applications for the New York driving license, with their long lists of pertinent questions as to the sanity, activity, and purity of the driver during the past twelve months, leave many loopholes for careless omissions and oversights when being filled out. If applicants have committeed one of the numerous possible errors, they receive a long form, on which are listed some 36 possible things which may have been done wrong. Samples of these follow. No. 17. Form MV-51 must be approved by Stolen Car Section or person authorized by County Clerk to sign. No. 24. In the case...
...period of their stay at college, their own masters in many respects. Not they are too often victims of the illusion that all one learns at college are the "three R's", Rah, Rah, and Rah. The unfortunate illusion grases in many pastures. Its richest fields are parenthood careless of the ways of youth and press careful of vice and sensation...