Word: haphazard
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...Guggenheim entrance into mining was no haphazard stroke of luck. An associate of Meyer asked for a loan on a Colorado silver mine. Shrewdly, Meyer said he would rather be a partner. When the mine did not pay, he went west and supervised it. Soon the whole family was dabbling in many metals, and in 1901 their interests helped form the American Smelting & Refining Co., "The Smelter Trust...
...advertising, helped to make his signature one of the best-known in the U. S. (Quotations from the Founder are still featured in the Wanamaker newspaper ads.) Author Wanamaker was apothegmatic. Examples: "Let us do things-do things." "No man can make horseshoes with gossip." "Success is not a haphazard affair...
...every new college multiplied by the natural inertia of the public in accepting an untried form of education. The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is in a position unfettered by either of these hindrances. Its schedule will combine freedom from hide-bound methods with coordination instead of haphazard choice in the extensive field it will cover; nor does it face the danger of impracticality, since the subjects are potentially as valuable in post-graduation activities as most in present curricula...
...first and second respectively in the Freshman event last year at the Triangle meet in Boston. The times of these men was close to those of the big race. How much one can presuppose by this is one of those things that makes doping a meet such a haphazard matter...
...general survey of the Business School appearing elsewhere in this issue shows a rapid growth of applicants in that post-graduate field proportionate to the expansion in the other branches of the University. As a natural result of this growth, a less haphazard, more studied choice of students is to be made as the first year class must be limited to six hundred. Therefore, this year's aspirants to the world of big business will be judged more closely. this special emphasis on character and former training is the natural outgrowth of the expansion of any institution not only because...