Word: caution
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having posed in Santa Claus costume, Capt. Musick took off with the first load of Pacific air express. After 700 miles he met a storm. True to his traditional caution, he turned about, returned to San Francisco...
...with Peden to leave nine teams in the race. In the last hour, with three teams tied in mileage, the pedaling became furious. Vopel went sprawling at the end of the fourth sprint, gamely remounted in seven minutes. Then he and Kilian put on the pressure. Throwing aside all caution, they zipped around the saucer, matching every effort of Letourner and his new partner Brocardo. Their daring won them 14 of the 27 final sprints, added 72 points to their total every time. Though tied in mileage (2,477 miles and seven laps) with two other pairs, Newcomers Vopel & Kilian...
Profound is the caution with which Japan has moved. There has been an "incident," the murder of a "Japanese marine in uniform" in Shanghai (TIME, Nov. 18). and this touched off other incidents last week as Chinese all over China roused one another against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police...
Reasons for Japan's caution last week were two: 1) it already controls North China in all but externals; 2) it wants an airtight technical case against Nanking, to avoid any chance that the League of Nations will declare against Japan the sanctions tested out on Italy...
...Meaning "Proceed with greatest caution...