Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting at Geneva ... no more speaks for the Jews of America, let alone the Jews of the world, than does any haphazard roomful of oratory on East 86th Street speak for the German people. No more alarming and dangerous enunciations could have been concocted than those reporting that a 'Super-Government of Judaism' was in process of formation. . . . Nonparticipating are the Zionists . . . and a score of other leading [Jewish] constituencies...
...this late date. When first published in the regular columns of the CRIMSON in 1925, it caused widespread favorable comment, both in the daily press and in publications of other colleges. Prior to its appearance, the student's sources of information concerning his prospective courses were limited and haphazard. There was the bloodless and formal description in the catalogue which described the course but which in the nature of things could tell nothing of its practical soundness, of its enjoyability, or of the comparative capability of the instructor. And there was the vague body of opinion--a roommate...
...student's decisions and the responsibility for his decisions must be entirely his own. The Guide offers no secret or magic formula to a happy choice of courses: it simply rationalizes and canalizes information which was always available but, so far as the individual's sources were concerned, was haphazard and unrepresentative. If the user of the Guide understands this principle, and the further one that his choice of courses must be conditioned by his own idiosyncrasies, we believe that the Guide will have more than justified its existence...
...Anyone acquainted with public prayer in American churches might well conclude that even ministers do not regard it as deserving any attention at all. Their public prayers often fall from their lips slipshod and haphazard, appalling illustrations of random, extemporized mediocrity...
...ample material on hand in the foregoing excerpts from the etchings of Otto Dix which were put on public exhibition this week. Otto Dix is a skilful German draughtsman who served in the War, remembered it bitterly. Visitors turned away from some of his clinical dissections of haphazard horrors, unaware that in an upstairs office Museum Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had concealed other Dix drawings considered too strong for public exhibition...