Word: chaotically
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...studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last century. In them he looked for cycles of 22 years, because that length of time represents two eleven-year sunspot cycles, or one complete magnetic cycle. He found something like...
...protest against the policies afoot, that financiers in London were accusing him of "playing a gigantic poker game" with the dollar; that in Paris famed Economist Frederic Jenny was prophesying, "Not far distant is the fatal moment when Mr. Roosevelt will be faced with the dilemma of chaotic inflation or a return to dollar stability...
...treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator the soubriquet of "Wrong horse Harry," and applied it to Cuba. The effect of this has been...
...Julian Thompson, adapted from the German of Walter Hasenclever; Lee Shubert, producer). Behind Her Man of Wax is an idea as excellent as any that ever suffered mutilation at the hands of an adapter. Napoleon reappears in 1933. is hailed as a savior by a chaotic world until it is discovered that a 19th Century man cannot cope with 20th Century problems...
...increased by Mr. Wells' quaint gesture of including a few patent words, similar to the synthetic vocabulary of Mr. James Joyce, to lend the writings of the future an unnecessary flavor of impossibility. Be it regarded as history or romance, "The Shape of Things to Come" is faulty and chaotic in organization; this short-coming is aggravated by the fact that its creator neglected to instruct his secretary to make that handy appendage, an index...