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Word: haphazardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with hydrogen replacing a chlorine atom in the molecule), and of a multibiotic. a triple-threat combination of streptomycin, bacitracin and polymyxin, for external use only. But there was also plenty of talk of deleterious effects. Boston's Dr. Ethan Allan Brown called today's enthusiastic but haphazard use of antibiotics "appalling." It is misleading, he said, to speak only of patients whose deaths are recorded as resulting from reactions to antibiotics. There are more deaths, said Dr. Brown, which do not get into print. Still more numerous are serious reactions short of death. Finally, there are countless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cures & Cautions | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Because the great bulk of Roger Williams' thoughts were both written and printed in a haphazard fashion, American Literature Professor Perry Miller did necessary and extensive editing to make the tracts readable. He has done so in an expert and conscientious way, clarifying considerably the flowery intricacies of Williams' prose...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Roger Williams | 10/28/1953 | See Source »

Because of this disparity--too much money to some students, too little to others--the scholarship office three years ago decided to junk the old rule and introduced instead a more probing system which incorporates more facts and less haphazard chance into the final stipend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarship Committee Revises Its Methods for Determining Stipends | 10/21/1953 | See Source »

Impartially stamped on cocktail glasses and diplomas, Veritas is the familiar emblem of Harvard College. But acceptance of this Latin noun came only after a haphazard beginning and two centuries of neglect and controversy...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Nothing But the Truth | 10/6/1953 | See Source »

...Pierce Theobald, an ear, nose and throat specialist, added another count to the indictment. One kind of deafness is increasing, he believes, as a result of the haphazard use of antibiotics in colds. If there is a middle-ear infection, the drugs may mask it, and then part of the ear fills up with fluid anyway. If this is not drained, it may solidify and impair hearing. The only solution, said Dr. Theobald, is to puncture the eardrum and remove the substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grandma Was Right | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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