Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's independent Economist wrote icily: "Fustian and bromide . . . [The program] will cause some stirrings in the Socialist graveyards ..." The Liberal Manchester Guardian sniffed: "Skillful patchwork . . . but the triumphant Socialist spirit has evaporated...
However, the course management assumes that anyone who dares take it deserves at least a B minus, so there's hope for the stout hearted. If you sidestep Freidrich, you can fill the theory requirements with a patchwork of Professors Beer and Holcombe...
Wald likened science to a vast patchwork quilt full of holes which scientists are trying to mend. He emphasized the importance of free exchange of ideas in the scientific world...
Author Lonyay's book is obviously intended as the final word on the whole gruesome story; in a case where the patchwork evidence has been so dispersed among the noble attics of Europe, that is probably top much to hope...
...sparring for an opening, he did such odd jobs as playing the piano at weddings and writing college songs for a Fred Waring radio program. Having now performed the rare feat of writing the music, lyrics and sketches for a hit revue (almost always a collaborators' patchwork), he is planning a musical comedy...