Word: hit-or-miss
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...only G.I.s who think U.S. decorations are too lavish and too hit-or-miss. Last week a general joined their ranks...
...attraction, Josh Gibson is no gaudy eccentric. He drives no cerise roadster, makes no startling statements about a strict diet of fried foods-and, accordingly, receives no $40,000 a year. Josh's salary is $750 a month, plus bonuses that are paid on a hit-or-miss basis. But Josh Gibson has come close to causing an international incident...
...play, which two years ago had a hit-or-miss run in Los Angeles, was slow starting in Chicago. The critics were brutal, saying such things as "The Great Northern Theater is going to be a parking lot if it doesn't watch out." For months the enterprise squeaked through by selling two tickets for the price of one-mostly to high-school-age smirkers. In January it was set to close, but was taken over by a saloonkeeper and a hat-check man who abandoned the play's haphazard promotion for a frontal attack featuring sex. Lately...
...World War I most colleges encouraged students to enlist, made degree-getting easy by giving academic credit for military drill, even Army service. Now conditions are more favorable to college attendance: !) Selective Service has superseded the old hit-or-miss enlistment system; 2) the Navy, advertising for college men to be trained as officers, promised they could finish their course before going into service; 3) President Roosevelt himself has urged collegians to stay in school until called...
...past year the Associated American Artists' Galleries' business has nearly doubled. To his artists, accustomed to the hit-or-miss sales common in most of the art world, Reeves Lewenthal's regular, dependable fees seem like manna from heaven...