Word: haphazard
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...Government 30 for example have perched on the windowsills, sprawled on the floor, and baked on the radiators, while a large host of auditors have appropriated the choice seats. The method used in English 22 of relegating auditors to the last two rows suggests a way of avoiding the haphazard scramble for seats. It is obvious that only by being given preferential treatment over the auditors can the regularly enrolled members of crowded lectures be assured of a place in their own courses...
...Hospitals are full and the situation haphazard. The Italians admit six deaths from sunstroke a day, and for two days there has not been water in the city...
...same time the present system is haphazard, and with steadily increasing laxity of requirements in the college itself, there is immediate need for a Committee whose province should be first, to examine carefully and report on the several standards in the different classes of the country's schools, and second, to suggest means whereby individual Freshmen can receive really valuable advice on the problems arising because of their preparation...
...Newark, N. J., for having been hit by an automobile when the traffic lights changed as she was crossing a street, Mrs. Michael May sued the City of Newark for . $5,000 for operating traffic lights "in a reckless, haphazard and improper manner...
...such chapter headings as "the Practical Poet," "Escape," "Rebirth," and "Achievement," Mr. Calvert traces the trend of Byron's gaudy career as playboy and poet. He dissects painlessly the processes of Byron's hasty and sometimes haphazard composition. He devotes time to analysis of Byron's satire--what part of it is pure wittiness, how much deliberately vengeful...