Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting a gloomy, tobacco-juice effect. But people were used to it, and found their way about in the sunless brown caves of contemporary painting as readily as bats. The "transparent atmosphere" that Manet had striven for and achieved was blinding to them. They saw it as an arbitrary patchwork of overbright colors...
...United States' budget system, recognized as inefficient since the time of Alexander Hamilton, has become a mere patchwork of uncoordinated committees. Blind budget hacking is no longer adequate for an intricate economic situation. The congressional budgetary system needs integration, therefore, for appropriations and revenues are handled by separate committees, making a budget tailored to American resources almost impossible. Not only are finances and expenditures not matched coherently, but few of the members of the involved committees are aware of any sort of legislative budgetary policy. Slashes are made in budgets with little regard to the importance of items...
...track team does defeat Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular meet on Feb. 22, much of the credit will go to McCurdy, who has built a winning squad from a group of inexperienced sophomores and a patchwork of veteran seniors and juniors...
...state controls, which are far more restrictive than the federal sys tem, are a patchwork of politics and protection for local milk producers. Alabama, for example, prohibits distributors from increasing out-of-state milk purchases except during a severe shortage, fixes the grocery price of milk 1?higher than the home-delivered price, even though it usually costs nearly 3? a quart less to sell through a grocery. Thus milk is 26? a quart in Birmingham, but in Chattanooga, a freely competitive market about four hours away by truck, milk is only 16? a quart. Wisconsin, because of highly efficient...
...Houses can never really fulfill the ideals of Presidents Lowell and Pusey as intellectual communities until they are nearer their intended size. Only an increased number of houses, not petty patchwork on the present system, can reduce congestion. When they meet next week, the Masters should decide to recommend construction of a new house as soon as funds can be raised...