Word: make-shift
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...support its own. It this were impossible they could be organized jointly by several Houses or there could be one central until conveniently located. The physical difficulties to putting any such scheme into effect can be easily resolved, either by the use of the dining rooms or by the make-shift use of some empty room in the cellar...
...great Eastern empire of many races a suitable place in the new scheme of British policy. Along among the colonies India possessed a high non-Anglo-Saxon population which necessitates special treatment. What would work for Australia and Ireland would not do, it was thought, for India. So a make-shift arrangement was knocked together to serve in the land of the Ganges. It did not work very well, everyone admits that, and the Nationalists are demanding with an ever more loud voice that India be granted her independence. So the Simon Commission has made an exhaustive examination...
...Mellon's ruling, it lies in the wording of the prohibition laws. However much power fanatical Drys may believe our government to have over the rest of the world, the makers of the law had no swollen imaginations. They merely lacked foresight. The new ruling is at best a make-shift and it can be expected that at the next meeting of Congress the cause of the absurdity will be properly remedied...
Sherburne's belated sprint in the mile and Lund's third position in the two-mile run were features of two events won by Cornell. The quartet which represented the University in the relay did well considering the fact that it was more or less of a make-shift. Chapin's lead-off was the only time in the race that the Crimson held the pole, and Merrill, at anchor, finished last behind Dartmouth and Cornell...
...journalist's modern problem, it would seem, is over-production. When one looks at the over-laden newsstands and magazine racks, and notes the same authors in periodical after periodical, it is scarcely to be wondered that most of the writing is make-shift and haphazard. Criticism, especially, is filling more and more space; in fact it is the proving-ground of many a young writer, and the incidental odd-jobbery of older hands at the literary game. But it is not highly paid, and since much of it is under commercial influences, it is perfunctory at best, and usually...