Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid little attention to their swart, stocky son, left him in the haphazard hands of tutors. Pushkin's real educator was his nurse Arina, who filled him full of folklore...
...deck force have A. B. certificates, that 75% be U. S. citizens. With many of the new rules both shipowners and seamen are pleased. With one clause, however, U. S. sailors are vehemently dissatisfied. This is the clause that substitutes a continuous discharge book for the old haphazard papers. The Department of Commerce started issuing discharge books Dec. 26. This week they become requisites. to get jobs at sea. This week too, striking seamen marshaled their forces for a final drive against them...
Traditional among the more out-at-elbow and haphazard methods of student self-rule at Harvard has been the raising of funds by the various house committees. Each year this necessary and indispensable evil has to be met to assure the proper functioning of student affairs within the houses, and each year finds an assortment of antiquated and unmethodical systems in use for the raising of these funds. That so much time has already elapsed without a common, practical method having been accepted is unexcusable, and it is all too plain that some common basis must be reached soon...
...sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate has too often been forced to look on examinations as ancient history as soon as the proctor collects them. For the University to treat in so haphazard a fashion work that counts more heavily than any single factor in a college career is clearly a breach of trust, and a uniform system should be devised by which all who desire may get their books back at the end of a given course or term...
...present, the freshmen know practically nothing about the various houses. They are seldom able to inspect more than one or two, and often prefer to make their choice on the basis of contacts with friends rather than with regard to tutorial facilities or curricular advantages. In view of this haphazard and unfortunate mode of selection, the formulation of house personalities would seem the most direct solution...