Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifty haphazard years of jerrybuilding followed. The Civil War focused national attention upon the capital and its miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...
...keep the supply down to the demand, thus eliminating a surplus, keeping up prices. Off-season they would dribble out for sale their crop holdings at a steady price. Likewise, to get more of the consumer's dollar, they would market their own produce and thereby squeeze out haphazard, wasteful methods of independent middlemen...
...orderly arrangement is the imminent location of one of the first new Houses at the northwest corner of Mill Street and Plympton. This would place the new house directly opposite Gore and absolutely preclude an ultimate development having even a remote connection with the plan of the Student Council. Haphazard distribution of the units, dictated by immediate convenience, is an evil to be avoided. The first house should not be dropped down upon a piece of land merely because it is vacant...
...confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love him!" "Then that's a very good reason not to marry him," despite Miss Gish's grotesque make-up and quaintly haphazard clothes, Young Love is adequate entertainment...
...most lively lecturer, nor the traditional head of a department, nor the actual head of a department is necessarily the most expert summarizer of the work to which his life is dedicated. The garnerings of the Freshman's six months of querying among upperclassmen are bound to be haphazard. Of such shreds and patches, however, are conclusions' made...