Word: haphazard
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...religious instruction, "the average Sunday School is taught by an untrained staff; its equipment is woefully meager; the curriculum is neither scientifically sound, comprehensive, nor sufficiently centred in the child's experience; the textbooks are biased in attitude and limited in scope; the pupils' attendance is haphazard, and the time spent by the average child in the average Protestant Sunday School is something less than 30 minutes of instruction per week and less than 40 hours per year...
...inimitable Cagney swings rapidly through the part of the dashing young chap whose extraordinary accomplishments in the air are equalled only by his ability at love-making. Our own Jimmy, as you know, just revels in any role which requires a poise full-charged with self-confidence, just right "haphazard" events, a lesson to be learned, and a pretty girl. Here he gets his chance to go sailing off on all four cylinders. And how he laps...
...from the case), Gustaf V does have the eccentricity of leaving valuable royal orders lying about his palaces with the abandon of a moppet tired of its toys. Awaiting royal audience, a distinguished visitor was lately amazed to observe half a dozen valuable orders of various nations strewn haphazard about the antechamber. Mused His Majesty, as the audience began in a room hung with scores of silver platters, crammed with hundreds of silver bowls and tankards: "This is the Silver Room...
...point of view they are irksome formalities which become, after long repetition, insignificant. The faculty residents converse in splendid isolation over their roast prime ribs of beef and afterwards withdraw to the shelter of the senior common room. Sometimes students are included at the high table, but the resulting haphazard intercourse with the staff is of minor worth. Often the guest of the evening discusses some question before an unrestricted audience, but student attendance is usually meager...
...flotation of large bond issues, and the government's appropriation of the gold reserve all tend to undermine credit. With this money the government has often spent five dollars to give one dollar of relief. Evidently the four dollar discrepancy ensures a vote for the new deal. Such haphazard spending will not bring about a utopia where everyone is satisfied; it will land us on the rocks of chaos...