Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the application of ordeal. He would delight to see the noble folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...
...professional plan is to be retained certain changes are desirable. The new haphazard supervision by the Council should be replaced by more effective control. If necessary, it ought not to be impossible for a professional editor to complete that part of the volume containing the record of the previous year in the late spring or summer, as well as the soliciting of advertisements, leaving only the directory of names to be completed in the fall...
...cheer, originated by Head Cheerleader W. L. Tibbetts '26, is a direct result of the new system of competition for cheerleaders. In previous years the cheerleading has been rather haphazard, and any calls for new cheers have gone unheeded...
...Modern Business. Agent Barton has small regard for the painters who have shown Christ as "a frail man, undermuscled, with a soft face-a woman's face, covered by a beard -and a benign but baffled look. ..." It was no such individual who whipped into efficiency "a haphazard collection of fishermen and small-town businessmen and one tax collector. . . . " 'Walk !' Do you suppose for one minute that a weakling, uttering that syllable, would have produced any result? If the Jesus who looked down on that pitiful wreck had been the Jesus of the painters, the sick...
Nothing could be more vague and haphazard than the arrangements for announcing the results of the general examinations. Perhaps the system is quite perfect, and our vague knowledge of it is due to a conscious effort of the reigning powers to disconcert the student forces by a sort of "secret practice" strategy. Still, such strategy can scarcely be appreciated by men who are anxious to proceed in planning for graduation and the work to follow...