Word: slipshodness
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...slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches and vulgarities-English that would disgrace a manager of prizefighters or a county superintendent of schools? Then the fault belongs plainly not to some remote man but to a proximate man-to the man who lets such drivel slide under his nose...
...untoward fact, for there are many reasons for it. One is the acceptation in such matters of mediocre standards throughout the country as a whole, a state of affairs that makes itself evident quite as much in the school and colleges as anywhere else. A society that talks slipshod English is going to produce slipshod teachers. Another reason may be summed up in the word "carelessness" a carelessness that has political cause as well as others, for there are some mistaken citizens who regard careful English as sinister affectation. Their view seems to be that one can talk as badly...
...modern literature it is not alone the writers who are to blame. The public must share fully half, and perhaps a greater part, of the burden. For so long as the makers of machinery, the builders of bridges, or the patrons of the subways are satisfied with slipshod work, "Thrillers", and the sort of books that are cluttering the presses today, so long will that class of writing crowd all the rest out of the market. There must be well-grounded appreciation, and some effort to meet the author half-way, before anything lasting can be accomplished. St. John Ervine...
...applicant. Indeed, it is strange that these dormitories which stand high in undergraduate estimation should seemingly have passed so completely out of the hands of the college. Men applying for rooms in college dormitories under the Bursar's jurisdiction can always be sure of courteous and careful attention. Slipshod indifference, however, seems to be they keynote in dealing out the rooms of three of the best dormitories in college...
...general work of the team was slipshod, and though this was in part due to the condition of the ice, it was not wholly so. Frequently the puck would shoot out of a general scrimmage with no one following it and with no particular purpose. There was also a great deal of slashing stick-work, and though on the whole the men passed fairly well, a great many passes were wide or too hard or forward...