Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief bills that were passed with support of utility and business lobbies were inadequate, haphazard, with distributions based not on needs but on geography. Examples...
...young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern for aspiring horsewomen. Her money-fed horses were the envy of the show-ring. Two years ago at the National she rode her Grey Knight to three blue ribbons in one day and wound up with...
According to Marvin, the new chairman will be relieved of a difficult problem by having his executive positions filled from the start, as, without access to University Hall records, he could not hope to make more than a haphazard choice...
...situation is much the same in the case of the Glee Club. Though it is well known throughout New England, its appearances at Harvard, except in joint performances, are extremely rare, the only regular concerts here being the rather haphazard Spring Yard concerts...
...generally recognized that the present haphazard diversity of procedure frequently results in confusion, unfairness, and lowered standards. In a matter so vital to Harvard's scholarly reputation there seems to good reason why the slightest mystery or uncertainly should prevail. While no system is immune to some measure of abuse or exploitation, we believe that it is possible to establish a tenure system and a democratic procedure, based upon the principle of Departmental autonomy, which will do much to eliminate the uncertainties and inequities of the present methods...