Word: haphazardly
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...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...
...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...