Word: caution
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caution was necessary for two reasons. 1) The Lambeth Conference, a decennial meeting, is purely advisory; its resolutions are by no means mandatory; they reflect the opinions of the majority of the bishops. The secrecy of the sessions is to shroud the often bitter arguments among the bishops. 2) The Church of England is not a unanimous body. Its Anglo-Catholic group has developed a serious rift in its doctrinal observations...
...peasants are learning a painful caution about black bread. It is made of rye. Russian rye is subject to ergot rust. Sometimes only one or two grains of the rye head are affected. The ergot is useful in obstetrics. In Russia, ergot occasionally is ground in with the rye flour, inadvertently causes abortions, gangrene...
...college, unwilling to immerse themselves entirely in their professions or industries, it offered repeated, cultivated doses of broadmindedness, enquired with dignified persistence into the affairs of the Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ...
Ever a staunch pillar of the Grand Old Party, Taft as President tempered with perhaps too much caution the flery reform policy of Roosevelt, his friend and predecessor. Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background...
...association with his fellow beings lest they in some inexplicable manner corrupt his integrity, warp his judicial soul. Chief Justice White sought solitude to the point of never accepting a Washington invitation, of avoiding all official functions. For all his surface affability Chief Justice Taft observed much the same caution in his daily contacts. He shunned Society and it was only last year that he relaxed his stand against the world to the point of attending a Gridiron dinner (TIME, April...