Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of how to improve the nursing business occupied the directorate of the American Nurses' Association who met in Manhattan last week. The Association has a membership of 105,000 graduate nurses. They demand stabilization of their haphazard, part-time employment...
Next day Hoiriis & Hillig flew back to Denmark for a reception at the pilot's birthplace, Braband. But the important city of Aarhus only three miles away, capital of the county, disdained to take official notice of their visit. The flight, said Burgomaster Jacob Jensen, was "haphazard luck." Had the flyers not named Copenhagen as their destination? And had they not floundered about over Spain and France before getting their bearings? So what if they had flown across the Atlantic Ocean safely? Many another has done the same. That is nothing nowadays...
Warden Lawes hailed the departure as bringing into the prison administration field a new class of men who, possessing intelligence as well as a humanitarian background, will adopt the work as a career to replace the haphazard political appointees serving as wardens in almost all prisons outside of New York State...
...ever present danger in so small a college town as Hanover is that the social development of the undergraduate will be neglected. With only half the college fraternally affiliated, it stands to reason that the associations and relationships of the other half are naturally of a more haphazard type. In cases where men have not been invited to join fraternities because of social or racial defects, this possibility becomes even more acute...
...plan represents a fundamental change from past practice, under which a dentist's education ceased with his graduation from the School. This has always been unsatisfactory due to the rapid progress in the scientific technique of dentistry, which graduates only gained in a haphazard fashion from numerous current magazines...