Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next step on the program to clear up traffic problem around the Square will be to tighten up on parking regulations along Massachusetts avenue in front of Wigglesworth Hall. Double line parkers--even "just for a minute"--and haphazard parkers who leave certain portions of their cars projecting into the way of traffic, will be summoned to court without being given any second chance...
...Paris' historic Ile St. Louis in a sumptuous old house crammed with exquisite bibelots and first editions lives millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Although intellectually cultivated, refined and suave, M. Blum affects a shaggy and haphazard air. He delights to rush among the Paris rabble and deliver mixed Socialist-Communist harangues. He annoys...
Bread 40? per loaf, butter $2 per lb., coffee $4 per lb., sugar 35? per lb. and the cheapest cigarets $1 for 20. Foreigners and Russians alike now pay these prices, established not by haphazard Capitalist supply & demand but by scientific Communist planning...
...Government 30 for example have perched on the windowsills, sprawled on the floor, and baked on the radiators, while a large host of auditors have appropriated the choice seats. The method used in English 22 of relegating auditors to the last two rows suggests a way of avoiding the haphazard scramble for seats. It is obvious that only by being given preferential treatment over the auditors can the regularly enrolled members of crowded lectures be assured of a place in their own courses...
...Hospitals are full and the situation haphazard. The Italians admit six deaths from sunstroke a day, and for two days there has not been water in the city...