Word: caution
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Searchers moved carefully, mindful of official warnings: "Burke is a very dangerous murderer. . . . Advise police caution in approaching him. . . . One of the most infamous ex-convicts in the U. S. . . . The most dangerous man alive...
...Caution. Snow and darkness hid the path which a Transcontinental Air Transport with two pilots and six passengers was making east of Albuquerque, N. Mex. last week. The pilots, Vernon Lucas and F. N. Erickson, dropped flares, landed comfortably in six inches of snow and by radio kept telling Albuquerque that they were safe. Their caution exemplified the policy of T. A. T., whose transcontinental airmail service has been running surely and safely since its bad wreck two months...
Forward thinking, even brash in his public policies is General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase...
...fiery statement to press correspondents on the morning of the state banquet the usually genial Baron angrily denied the rumor that he intended resigning from politics. Forgetting the caution he was wont to observe on account of a weak heart, the elderly soldier waxed in vehemence. "A soldier never deserts! I will stand by Seiyukai and I will defy my enemies, whoever they...
...Grand Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile trip in a private car, was met in Pleasantville by other Rolls-Royces she had sent ahead. On this occasion observers noted the private car did not carry an empty baggage car behind, usual Hutton caution against rear-end collisions...