Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sanctity of the principles upon which this Republic has grown great. ... As a nation we are undefeated and unafraid (Real applause). . . . Democracy & Demagogs. "Our interest now is in the future. . . . We still have much to do. ... The solution of our many problems is not to be found in haphazard experimentation.* ... It does not follow . . . that we must turn to a State controlled or State-directed system to cure our troubles. That is not liberalism; that is tyranny. . . . Ofttimes the tendency of democracy in the presence of national danger is to strike blindly, to listen to demagogs and to slogans...
...president had met last month to choose one, they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache...
...trying to teach officials of the various communities that the regulation of street traffic for promoting efficiency and safety is one of the most important problems that they have to face and is not to be despatched in a haphazard way but should be put in the charge of a paid city official," Miller McClintock, lecturer in Government, said yesterday in describing the work of the Albert Russell Erakine Bureau for Street Traffic Research of which he is the Director...
...study of subjects to which they do not intend to devote their lives." One of the immediate results was a stiffening of not a few courses, and the report was followed some years later by rules requiring concentration and distribution in studies, instead of an uncontrolled, and too often haphazard, election...
...logical manner, by means of excellent colored reproductions, the various phases of modern painting that have been singly shown by the society in the past. The exhibitions during the last season presented an opportunity for viewing many different artists and tendencies which, to the casual observer, seemed arbitrary and haphazard. The present show summarizes and clarifies the past efforts of the society...