Word: haphazardly
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...replacing the relatively crude, haphazard, and extremely expensive method of improving vacuum tube performance by trial and error, hitherto universally applied, Chaffee is believed to have opened the way to much wider development and use of the electric "valves...
...haphazard. The old and the young, the halt and the well, the first and the last were seated more or less at random by a large corps of Junior Ushers, even as the wind, blowing where it listeth, soweth the weeds...
...happily, keep changing. Daily bridge advice from Mr. Culbertson is printed in 110 newspapers, from Mrs. Culbertson in 56. That brings them in $30,000 a year. They publish two magazines, Bridge World and Games Digest. They run a bridge club in Manhattan. Bridge teachers, mostly widows making a haphazard living, find a Culbertson "diploma" almost indispensable. And yearly courses are required to keep the diploma up to date...
...November muskrats set out to do something about their annual housing shortage. In the summer they burrow into the banks of streams or ponds but during the northern winter the underwater entrances freeze up and the muskrats must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round...
...wider audience Comic Bert Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues as well: Jimmy Savo, exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges...