Word: cautioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predictions of business leaders are hardly consistent. Secretary Mellon is an out-and-out optimist, who sees no evidence of inflation, no cause for alarm, and a long period of prosperity ahead. Charles M. Schwab is cheerful, but feels it necessary to caution business men against overoptimism. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, Manhattan, recognizes present prosperity, but warns against the dangers of rising costs produced by over-swift expansion. Much the same position was taken by the U. S. Department of Commerce in a recent bulletin. In the case of the stock market, J. L. Livermore...
...figures in several basic industries established new records and a distinct advance in wages was witnessed. But the speculative market for securities and staple commodities proved quiescent, with the declining tendency. No clear signs of general inflation are yet apparent and business men in general are exercising an admirable caution in regard to the future...
...Reichenbach took pains to "put over" was that it was immoral. How many of the millions who read the "story" knew that it was manufactured news? Most editors are sorry it happened. Coming so soon after the Chaplin-Negri wedding stunt, it may at least serve to increase editorial caution...
...word of caution! Professionalism menaces even the horse-shoe pitcher. There are two leagues: The National Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and the American Horse-Shoe Pitchers' Association and professional coaches are already in the field. The tournaments are apt to draw large crowds, and in Florida the intense excitement of the game was fatal to one of the spectators. It looks as if football, outstripped in the race for the favor of the fickle public, were doomed to an early demise. But alas! It also looks as if the colleges were simply going to exchange one unruly child for another...
What we found proved to be a long, broad tunnel. It was well preserved, and we had little difficulty in making our way along it. We proceeded with caution, two peons going ahead to make sure there were no pitfalls; and in about half an hour of walking we came to the end. Digging our way out, we reached the upper air and looked about us in entirely new surroundings. The place where we had come out was nothing less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from...