Word: haphazard
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...started back in 1869 with the original purpose of training Christian ministers in the School of Theology. From that point on it was a story of steadily increasing size and range of studies, and as a result the college buildings expanded in a rather haphazard fashion throughout the entire city, there being no original campus...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
Instead of committing himself to a single seat for the entire season, as heretofore, Bingham stated, the booklet-owner will be able to secure seats with whomever he desires, with better results than last year. This procedure will eliminate the necessity of returning tickets and the resulting, haphazard re-distribution...
...punch a time clock and sweep out the children at the end of six hours. The school building isn't a factory. Teachers should make home contacts, but you see little of that any more. They should make better daily presentations. That is what has led to haphazard classes...
...Pulitzer Prize), Oriana was never permitted to leave Moscow during her stay in Russia. But her restless curiosity and good-natured brashness got her into schools, museums, churches, ordinary homes and, with the help of interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites, and Moscow itself becomes a city instead of a featureless backdrop for the Kremlin...