Word: haphazard
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...Yangtze. The 40 foreign warships patroling the Yangtze River last week were subjected to incessant and haphazard fire from the embattled Chinese soldiery. The U. S. gunboat Pigeon was hit by some hundreds of Chinese rifle and machine gun bullets and the three U. S. sailors were slightly wounded. The French gunboat Baliny was likewise fired upon, as were numerous British destroyers and merchant craft, but no casualties were reported...
...when there is a need in the community for the additional rooms it will bring. But over and beyond such legitimate projects, the country is witnessing the building of scores of hotels in cities where no actual proof can be offered that the need for new hotels exists. These haphazard, over optimistic projects are the froth on the top of our present wave of prosperity. They are a menace...
There is only one college* to which the song rightly belongs, but no haphazard gathering of U. S. college songsters, however diverse their allegiances, would be unable to render it, "swipes" and all, with never a look at one another, heads tilted back and eyes shut tight for the roaring refrain. Thus, when the Lord Jeffrey Inn was opened with ceremony last week at Amherst, Mass., college men everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant...
...Significance. Since a root cause of war from which most surface causes spring is admittedly the pressure of increasing population, it is to the advantage of all nations to ease and curb this pressure wisely, lest haphazard blood-letting continue.* But in Rome, Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni cried last week...
...trade routes are one of the most picturesque of archaeological problems. The road from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...