Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the case), Gustaf V does have the eccentricity of leaving valuable royal orders lying about his palaces with the abandon of a moppet tired of its toys. Awaiting royal audience, a distinguished visitor was lately amazed to observe half a dozen valuable orders of various nations strewn haphazard about the antechamber. Mused His Majesty, as the audience began in a room hung with scores of silver platters, crammed with hundreds of silver bowls and tankards: "This is the Silver Room...
...point of view they are irksome formalities which become, after long repetition, insignificant. The faculty residents converse in splendid isolation over their roast prime ribs of beef and afterwards withdraw to the shelter of the senior common room. Sometimes students are included at the high table, but the resulting haphazard intercourse with the staff is of minor worth. Often the guest of the evening discusses some question before an unrestricted audience, but student attendance is usually meager...
...flotation of large bond issues, and the government's appropriation of the gold reserve all tend to undermine credit. With this money the government has often spent five dollars to give one dollar of relief. Evidently the four dollar discrepancy ensures a vote for the new deal. Such haphazard spending will not bring about a utopia where everyone is satisfied; it will land us on the rocks of chaos...
...plan, now embodied in the National Institution of Public Affairs, was first worked out after McCall and Wingo observed and pondered the contrast between the efficiency with which business draws ability to its service and the haphazard way in which most public servants are recruited. The idea, however, is not a new one, for included in the last will and testament of George Washington is the wish for a national institution at Washington to afford to young people a training in the social sciences, particularly government and politics...
...small measure this haphazard system exists because there is no Tobacco Exchange. A group of Manhattan brokers, however, have decided that there will be a futures market within a week. Highest hurdle they had to jump was to find a satisfactory grade of tobacco to use as the standard trading medium. There are countless grades "of cotton but the base contract is Middling ? in. Upland. All departures from the standard grade are adjusted between buyer & seller. Likewise the New York Tobacco Exchange, instead of dealing in Bright Flue-cured, Dark-fired Kentucky, Burley, One-sucker, Green River, Black...