Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work in drawing up a bill providing for the establishment of a "National Hall of Records," in which the archives of the United States can be carefully kept and preserved. At present the archives are scattered more or less over the United States and are kept in a rather slipshod manner. To remedy this, the association is bending all its efforts...
...partial reforms before another year. We fail entirely to see what services the average janitor performs that he should be entitled to the respectable remuneration that he receives. He refuses to do the simplest errands; his most important duty - the supervision of the goodies - he does in the most slipshod manner possible; the only thing be does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room...