Word: haphazard
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Generations of scientists have tried to explain how the solar system began. None of the explanations is wholly adequate. The trouble is that the solar system is not a haphazard collection of planets buzzing around the sun. It has remarkable "regularities" which indicate that all its major members had a common and systematic origin...
...decision was further enhanced by the method of voting proposed by the Student Government. Instead of relying on previous haphazard systems, the letter from Council President Joan Projansky outlines a technique which is certain to get a vote from almost every girl in the college...
...there are too many signs that the present rent policy is haphazard. Cases of rent discrepancies exist in every House and dormitory. The same rents, for instance, are charged for rooms that are obviously far from equal in desirability. Even worse, the poorer room is sometimes more expensive. If this unfair situation is not cleared up by fall, the rent increase will only add to its injustice...
...advantage of the situation to eliminate current confused and unfair room rent discrepancies. The cases of occupants of small, evamped rooms being charged higher rents than those living in more spacious and desirable suites are too numerous under the present sealing system for current prices to seem other than haphazard. Any increase in rent affords a perfect opportunity to iron out these iniquities...
...does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind the classic walls of its clubhouse, another huddles around its extra-curricular typewriter, a third feeds rich tears to its social conscience twice a day; only the haphazard democracy of the monitor and the lecturer's cold harangue brings them together...