Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the fact that her affectionate disposition was attested by all acquaintances on her arrival at the Capital, a rufous-bellied wallaby, sent to Mr. Coolidge by a Tasmanian admirer, was shipped direct to the Washington zoo with the President's request that she be taken care of. She was given temporary quarters in the antelope house, although not related to them...
...number of cases of embezzlement and graft reported by the police. . . . At Moscow such crimes have increased eleven fold in twelve months, and in the provinces the figure is nearly 20 fold. . . . This situation has been brought about by slipshod administrative and financial control, and by lack of care in the selection of employes. . . . 41% of the culprits had been employed less than six months . . . [and] 58% of them were addicted to drink or debauched living. . . . Bookkeeping methods have been so lax that many of the embezzlements were discovered only when trusted employes were observed to be spending too readily...
...composed of three members of the Faculty, three graduate members, and three undergraduates. When the question came to a vote, the three undergraduates voted 'for," as did one graduate. One graduate member of the Committee who was known to represent the minority, the third graduate member 'who didn't care,' and three faculty members voted 'against.' So the prospect was defeated...
...want to be sure that membership in the Court cannot be used either (a) to bring this country before the bar of the World Court in the settlement of a question that we do not care to submit to it, or (b) to marshal world-wide public opinion against us in case we have refused to submit a moot question to the Court...
Slowly, with infinite care, the vast spaces of the insane are being plotted by science. Every day new data are recorded, new hypotheses proved. But until the time comes when all this vast field is completely charted, justice must continue to grope blindly in the path of duty. Of course the New Jersey jury were sincere. Of course they acted as best they could in the light of their poor knowledge. But the accuracy of their decision must continue a mystery until this variable, this indeterminate insanity is brought by science within the understanding of human justice...