Word: caution
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control system. To acknowledge that signal and keep his train rolling, Engineer King pulled down a small lever. He knew he was in dangerous territory, that the running rules required him to be able to stop...
...Irish Republican Army. They refuse to vote for deputies to the Dail: they call the 1921 treaty with Britain "the treaty of surrender." Their young men. of whom Eamon de Valera was once one. drill and plot the new day of Revolution, cursing de Valera for his caution. Last week he told them that with the abolition of the oath "a new situation has been created,'' opening the Oireachtas "to all sections of the population, without their having to forswear any opinions they might hold legitimately. . . . There is no longer any excuse for preparation...
...first to govern in visions of incipient reformers is that of caution. The development of the Tutorial System, though not above criticism, has in general received wise guidance. It has been a measurable force in rapid growth of undergraduate taste for things intellectual. In the face of such a record, drastic changes would be unwise. With these limitations in mind, the CRIMSON wishes to indicate briefly a few alterations which, lit believes, would increase the value of the tutorial System for both Tutor and Tutee. It is admittedly hazardous, in view of the separate needs of the various departments...
...Caution is advised against camping out at night...
...instant it appears on the floor of Metropolitan Garage. This and other paraphernalia in The Devil Is Driving-an airshaft into which a sedan topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance of a dumb monster (George Rosener) and a paint shop...