Word: makeshift
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...great pity is that today strikes such as this was hastily patched up without any provisions to avoid future difficulties of the same sort. The public is temporarily shocked, some one produces a makeshift never based on a scientific investigation, peace is proclaimed (but a peace which is merely an armed trace), the public sits back, breathes a sigh of relief and forgets all about it. Industrial Conferences sit at Washington, break up and sit again, but leave us no nearer a definite industrial code or method of settling strikes than we were before...
...found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system has not kept pace with our demand for basic products. For a number of years the increasing demands of an increasing population have been met by a draft on our reserve supplies and resort to temporary and makeshift means of raising production. But at last we are brought face to face with the choice of accepting a permanent scaling down of the standard of living as the present system of production becomes more and more out-of-date, or of affecting a radical shaking up of the system...
...further practice and supervision in writing. In the absence of any provision for such training, the secretary of the committee has this year given to about thirty students (a large proportion of whom were unclassified) instruction and criticism in weekly conferences. The committee, however, regards this arrangement as a makeshift; for actual instruction in English naturally should be carried on by the English Department, rather than by the committee. It therefore recommends that a course in English composition be arranged for next year, to be given under the auspices of the English Department, especially designed to meet the needs...
...Sophomores were obliged to postpone their smoker owing to lack of the required membership in the Union. This would seem to show that their year's isolation in the Freshman dormitories had militated against their appreciation of the Union's value. As a makeshift, until sufficient membership can be secured, they might well follow the system instituted by 1917 last year, of having a series of small smokers in the Randolph breakfast room, a system which did a great deal to bring the members of 1917 in close touch with each other...
...there being perhaps fifty rates between the two extremes. Calculations can be made here only on the basis of average. The United States Census deals only with the statistics of wages relating to manufacturing but even here the method used is faulty and is a makeshift for the correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five...