Word: cautioningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each semaphore. A pick-up coil is placed under part of the locomotive. When passing over the magnet in the roadbed, this pick-up coil receives the impulse, which in turn is communicated to the apparatus on the engine controlling the air brakes. If the signal is set at "caution" or "danger," the magnet reflects that indication and the speed of the train is automatically reduced. If the engineer does not heed this warning but allows his train to pass to a zone nearer the danger, a second magnet further reduces the speed. At the nearest point to the actual...
...action may have a great importance from our own point of view, nonetheless. Again, I must speak a word of caution. The United States will not be making a great sacrifice for peace when it gives the support which is being proposed. We can now go before the Court with a dispute if the other party agrees. The 48 other States, have been kind enough to arrange that for us, as they did for Germany and Russia and Turkey. But it is not being suggested that we agree to use the Court. It is suggested only that we agree...
Senator Henry de Jouvenel, able editor-in-chief of Le Matin, one time French delegate to the League of Nations and recently appointed French Civilian High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16) is known in Paris as a man of caution and of peace. Those qualities recommended him highly as a successor to General Maurice Sarrail, the recalled French High Commander to Syria (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week Frenchmen were well pleased as M. de Jouvenel slipped quietly over to London for a conference with British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, preparatory to setting out for Syria...
...bull" market, as proved by subsequent events. In succeeding sessions of the stock exchange, prices steadied and in some cases shot upward to new high levels. The whole episode may be dismissed as signifying nothing in particular to U. S. business in general except, perhaps, that a note of caution has been sounded in the stock market regarding the future of the motor industry. Meanwhile the securities of other industries, for the time being crowded out of the limelight by the sensational motor shares, revealed new elements of strength...
...divided the rest of the games evenly. Five lean years followed with successive Yale victories until Haughton returned as head coach. Then the golden age of Harvard football flourished until the period of the world war. Harvard seems to have viewed its good fortune with an excess of caution; for, at the beginning of the 1914 season, the Alumni Bulletin felt quite gloomy over the fact that only Mahan, Brickley, Hardwick and Pennock could be counted on among the letter men returning to college...