Word: haphazardly
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...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...
...Belmont's point: private charity, keeping 13,000,000 idle alive, is haphazard, wasteful. Said she: "The major portion of the relief program should be assigned to the city, State or Federal Government, and the amount agreed upon ... as necessary to carry out an adequate program, should be obtained by special taxation. ... I do not believe it is a wise policy to carry on the work of serious emergency relief with voluntary contributions. The system is as wrong as that of voluntary enlistment in times of war. It simply means that you penalize the generous...
...conceivable that such a course, covering modern theory in literature and drama, would attract chiefly those men who are well-read beyond the standards of Bible and Shakespeare courses, rather than those whose reading of twentieth century literature is more or less haphazard. This might be avoided by conducting the course less in the research spirit than is the present English 26. It would need a leader of no ordinary talents, a teacher who stands above the tight world of literary schools and who could cope with a chaos of names. He would have to survey a fairly ordered system...
...their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa. John Farmer was starting his 1933 crops on the same haphazard plan of the past because...