Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fogg Museum alone. The museum is unique in its close coordination between instruction in the history of art and the exhibits in its galleries. In this respect it differs from most college museums, which are apt to be nothing but repositories for all material accumulated by gifts or haphazard purchase regardless of its illustrative value. In marked contrast to the heterogeneous mixtures of good, bad, and indifferent creations of past ages usually seen in such exhibits, there is a definite purpose behind every object in the Fogg galleries. Discrimination as to artistic merits and historic importance is shown...
...when I, King Camp Gillette, was 40, I first thought of the safety razor." So, a decade ago, wrote the father of a great company, a great industry. The proud ring in his words was justified. His invention was no haphazard one. For years he had pondered the possibilities of finding some cheap article that would be used daily, and have a constant replacement demand. The growth of Gillette Safety Razor Co. had been fast and sure, accomplished out of earnings. Into all countries had gone packages of blades, carrying the dollar-proud face of King Camp Gillette. Last week...
Although on the face of it this is merely a means taken to correct the usual haphazard assignment of courses by an uninterested and more or less uninformed freshman adviser, it is also an indication of the difficulties encountered in assimilating the various types of students entering every year and starting them off on congenial and not too discouraging work...
...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...