Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...security problem is a big one for U. S. churches, whose care of their worn-out ministers is a large, often haphazard U. S. business. The 24 denominations of the Church Pensions Conference* have more than $171,000,000 in assets, a total annual income of $15,000,000. They pay nearly $11,000,000 a year to 38,000 clerical pensioners, widows and orphans. How much an individual pensioner gets, after retiring at around 68, depends upon how well-managed his church's pension affairs are. The Episcopal fund, first in the U. S. to be established...
...entrance of formalized government work in the field of social security and relief problems, the machine was at best a palliative. "It worked by hook or by crook. Its rehabilitative influence was accidental rather than purposeful; being essentially a means to an organizational end, it met despondency in a haphazard way, coping with immediate aspects as they presented themselves...
...took it seriously until President Cárdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State...
...carpenter who made the sets to the musician who rewrote Wagner's overture to Tannhauser, and omits only the banker who put up the money. Because cinemaddicts pay little attention to this list except to deplore it, they entertain vague notions, that moving pictures are either: 1) made haphazard by a collection of overpaid addleheads who speak only a few words of English; or 2) the result of a mass inspiration upon the most miraculously gifted group of creative artists ever simultaneously assembled on the globe. Twenty-five years ago, movies were indeed manufactured helter-skelter by almost anyone...
England. At Maiden Castle in Dorsetshire are the remains of a fortress built and manned by the Belgie people before the Roman invasion (First Century). Last fortnight it was reported from London that the Maiden Castle diggers had uncovered a haphazard burial area containing about 30 skeletons. Some of the skulls and bones were nicked as if by weapons. Apparently the Belgies had made an ill-advised sortie from the stronghold to meet oncoming Romans, who slaughtered them. Aside from the marks of battle, however, the skeletons were well preserved, were expected to shed light on the physical characteristics...