Word: caution
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as our admittedly Puritan President is, is fitted particularly for the problems of this rushing 20th Century. A great amount of propaganda has been sent out about his ' cautiousness,' ' thriftiness ' and ' silence,' and the women, I believe, do not find these particularly commendable virtues in a President. Caution is easily synonymous with lack of courage, thrift often degenerates into stinginess and silence does not always connote wisdom...
...thoroughly organized according to word received from Dartmouth yesterday. In fact four accidents by college students in the last week indicate its growing popularity. But the ban has fallen, not at the hands of local authorities but by the college officials, who have sent out the following word of caution...
...Within a week there have been four accidents of a serious nature because of fast or careless driving of cars by undergraduates. This fact seems to justify a word of caution...
...flight the beautiful silver dirigible ZR-1 flew over three states and gave Newark, New Brunswick, Camden, Philadelphia and New York an opportunity to see this marvel of American engineering skill. The Navy's tests so far have been entirely successful; all flights are made with the greatest caution and care. But there is no lack of ambitious work to come. Collection of data for the purposes of commercial airship navigation, flights to the North Pole, trips around the world, the surveying of hitherto inaccessible regions are in store for the airship skipper and his lucky crew...
...outlook for the Autumn is still " spotty," but in general less favorable than some months ago. The prophetic weakness in the stock market, as well as the continued drop in wholesale commodity prices, are already unfavorable influences upon certain mercantile lines. But caution is more prevalent among manufacturers than among merchants, and this seems altogether justified from such facts as have clearly emerged in a cloudy and confused outlook. Nowhere is there any fear of panic, but the danger of a depression is making itself more widely felt as the Fall approaches...