Word: caution
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write to urge continuance of the Quiz column. It teaches caution and affords diverting group entertainment...
...Austen replied with frigid caution: "For myself and for the Government let me say that we share the regret that these large issues as to the composition of the Council should arise on this occasion and have to be discussed now. ... I do not think that the interests of peace and international understanding will be served by the members of individual governments saying what they would do or what they would not do at the forthcoming meeting of the great world council. I do not see how we will ever come to an agreement if each of us announces beforehand...
...period in their history. Opinions of persons interested in sports, especially intercollegiate sports, reached the height of front page avidity, and drew serious comments from high college authorities. In the face of this throat to amateurism in sports, the athletic committees of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have thrown caution to the four winds and have openly assailed the pocketbooks of their respective alumni. How will this action effect public opinion as regards professionalism in athletics? What will be the effect on the alumni...
...that which unravels a particularly annoying knot without snarling the string at the other end. For years the Cottage Farm Bridge and the railroad bridge beside it have been a thorn in the flesh of rowers on the Charles. They form a barrier to be passed only with great caution. Now, by a bill pending in the legislature, each of the bridges is expected to give way to a new structure with six fifty-foot spans, and thus to clear the river for rowing from Anderson Bridge to the Basin...
Statistics. Troubled Britons added two more "escapes" to their list of 13 tumbles during the past five years. Anxiously they listened to Court gossips who declared: "During the last illness of Queen Alexandra, the Prince exercised great caution while hunting and chose relatively docile mounts in order that his grandmother might not have her last days troubled by uneasiness for him. He has now given way once more to his passion for riding very mettlesome, powerful horses, which are quite unsuitable for a man of his slight build." The 13 spills: WHEN....WHERE...