Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for faith healing became apparent at last week's Canterbury convocation in London. Anglican priests and bishops want faith healing authenticated and formalized under the strict discipline of the Church for two reasons: 1) many have been anointing the sick and laying their hands on them in dismayingly haphazard fashion; 2) they wish to combat Christian Science, which they consider a growing menace to the Church of England. In sundry ways the Anglicans showed how appalled they were that London now has twelve Christian Science churches, whereas five years ago the number was only seven, and ten years...
...Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting art apprenticeship as a newspaper cartoonist, then as an art student in Chicago, Paris, New York, where he kept himself alive painting scenery for the old haphazard cinema studios of Fort Lee, N. J. Six months in the Navy during the War knocked the French impressionism out of him. He began to develop his own style. In 1919 he started work on a project that bore its first tangible fruits last week: a gigantic pictorial history...
...Senior Class ballots tomorrow morning, provides a new option among the methods heretofore offered for the contribution to the class fund. A yearly budget method of preparing for the twenty-fifth reunion has been found both more productive and more acceptable to the majority of graduates than a haphazard system of gifts and contributions. Consequently it must be admitted that whatever method of payment is used, it must become in, which there is a regular and cumulative supply of funds being gathered over a period of years...
...America is a scrapbook, eclectic but inclusive and not haphazard. Its 200 photographs, drawings, cartoons, handbills, programs, advertisements go swimmingly with the text, help to make the book a continuous, carefully edited newsreel of a day just gone...
...criticizes the system of tariff adjustment and refers to it as proceeding in a "haphazard and irresponsible fashion." "To give the farmers higher duties on swine, corn, and meat is a continuation of the old process of trying to throw dust in their eyes." "One is often led to suspect that the pervading process of log-rolling and swapping has ended in changes which some particular domestic interest and its Congressional representative had at heart...