Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional banana skin, a well placed puddle of water can accelerate matters to an exceptional degree. This should inject some humor into a game which formerly has depended too much on the temper of the players. And squash will not be the first sport which has descended to slipshod practices...
...happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems too disjointed to entertain rustics and as reporting, too slipshod to amuse metropolites. Best shot: Two old men in a corner of a speakeasy...
...philanthropy is pleasant but it is not blessed by efficiency. No more efficient is indiscriminate philanthropy conducted on a larger scale. The purpose of the Community Chest is to lessen the indiscrimination and waste of large-scale philanthropy by simple and effective cooperation. Thus, instead of several separate and slipshod campaigns for charitable financing, a city in which a Community Chest functions has one concerted campaign, lessening advertising expenses, increasing the net result. A board of directors, made up of the officials of the various welfare organizations, sees to it that budgets are properly distributed...
...happened. Rough ways, rough words were not unknown. Money was made, lost, quickly, loosely. Judge English became careless. He got into the habit of assigning lucrative bankruptcy cases to his good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a?. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed money to pay for an automobile, Friend Thomas provided it. Enemies, easily and multitudinously created, whispered to the St. Louis Post Despatch, which, hot for a good story, spent a few thousand dollars digging up unlovely testimony. Finally, complaints reached Congress...
...justification of this slipshod connection between error and its correction is an avowedly personal one. The secrecy is designed to protect instructors from unpopularity among students whom they report. On its face, this apprehensive anonymity is unscholarly and harmful. For, each upper classman, not a transfer student, has passed or anticipated English A. He knows the elements of composition. Yet in cases of deficiency, in default of specific allegation, he must make a more or less general review of rhetorical principles To confront him with his actual written errors and thus to remind him also of the specific conditions under...