Word: irregularly
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...planned to straighten the street lines on the familiar American gridiron plan. La Renaisssance des Cites has been able to substitute another method of widening the streets for new traffic requirements by cutting back as a general rule only on one side and on the other retaining the picturesque irregular house fronts...
...that the list given out for publication is wrong; that there is some mistake; that if they will drop around in a day or two the mix-up will be straightened out. And so the applicant "drops around" only to find that the one in charge is not there. Irregular office hours and "passing the buck" seem to be the law of the room assigners. Surely something can be done to insure the student against such unfair treatment and to bring about co-operation among the men renting dormitories, the college and the undergraduate...
...expected to attend an organization dance and Saturday night you would be called upon to support the debating team. You might throw up the sponge and try again next week, but next week would probably prove just as bad. In the end, your study of the subject would be irregular and much distracted; the exact opposite of concentration...
...relieve the present confusion, and would be welcomed by both the friends and foes of tutorial work. At present there seems to be no co-ordination between tutors; some meet their advisees for ten minutes monthly, while others hold two hours of conferences a week. As long as this irregular condition remains, it is impossible for the college office to assign course credit for tutorial work,--the reform suggestion which seems most popular among the undergraduate body...
...some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy in a steady job, fair hours, good wages, a sliding scale, and a labor organization that has the countenance of the management. Bolshevism cannot...