Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Amery, brusque, direct, arch-imperialist, uttered on this occasion bland words: "I deal in this office with 36 different governments, each entirely separate from the rest, each administratively, financially and legislatively self-contained. The whole system with its haphazard complexity and lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system...
...told Dr. Klein to cable his reports, but other consuls found he was gaining prestige thereby, and began to cable, too, reports which they had been accustomed to send in haphazard, and often a season or two late. . . . To close the chapter, Dr. Klein was promoted in 1921 to his present post: Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. There over 300 reports reach him daily; and out to U. S. businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must...
Perhaps the most delightful feature of M. Maurois' style is his refreshing use of similes. For a haphazard example: "Just as occupants of a motorcar, seeing themselves driven to certain disaster by a drunken driver, from a sentiment of honour do not intervene to mitigate his speed so Renaudin's inveterate determination and Monsieur Pascal's grandiloquence led the owner and the hands to a collision which both feared...
...course, club tables are the habit of mankind, or was the habit till vast numbers of people took to living in flats or lodges and taking their meals rather at haphazard. Nevertheless, many of the private clubs, the Harvard Union for considerable periods, and private combinations outside of the college commons have always existed. Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, was a member of a dining club in a private house, throughout his college life, and friendships there made seem to have outlasted his total life...
Shanghai. Martial Law was declared in the Chinese city, last week, by Chinese officers adherent to Chiang Kai-shek (see above). Their soldiers nabbed haphazard and executed approximately 100 "Reds"; and concurrently the intermittent "general strike" seemed to be petering out, with all but a few thousand factory hands back at work...