Word: haphazard
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...There was [for example] a generation or two that suffered from Watt's steam engine more frightfully than any people suffered from the first World War." In the field of design the revolution has been as wasteful, haphazard and painful as it has in economics or politics, principally because man is still merely fumbling with the brand-new set of complicated tools modern technology has given him. Today's designers, working laboriously by trial & error, are creating the semisavage "primitives" of the machine...
...place of the present haphazard distribution, the Committee would substitute five required introductory courses--two in the humanities, two in the natural sciences, and one in the social sciences. Taken in Freshman and Sophomore year, they would prepare the way for natural progress to a field of concentration...
...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...