Word: haphazards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East, says Dr. Rogers, this method, haphazard at best, does not work: there are no ground squirrels. Eastern mycophagists (fungus eaters) have to go back to first principles and use trained animals. Either dogs or hogs will do, but dogs are nicer to have around the house...
...There'll always be conflicts," is the motto of too many departments. But haphazard scheduling hurts everyone except the most loyal Benchleyites...
...stipulations about the length of rehearsal time, minimum pay, and working hours have all resulted in higher standards in stock productions. Year by year, this large but jumbled business is becoming more organized, but the day that summer theaters become efficiently-run, financially stable ventures, they will lose their haphazard charm. Fortunately, it does not appear likely--or even possible that this will ever happen...
...still carry Page One display ads, charge three to six times as much for them as for inside ads. The result is that much valuable news space below the fold is filled with ads. What space is left is largely wasted by oversized headlines, and a make-up as haphazard as if the type had been fired from a blunderbuss...
...most parts of the U.S., doctors can do nothing about the haphazard use of X-ray fitting machines in shoe stores (TIME, Sept. 19) except denounce it as dangerous. But in Washington last week the District of Columbia's Commission on Medical Licensure tried a neat trick: it banned use of the machines except by licensed operators-and no shoe-store clerk could qualify for a medical operator's license...