Word: cautioningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were quite ready for peace and quiet in large doses, but one of our camels commenced to gargle in a particularly painful manner. To me is was nothing but an unpleasant noise, but the way that "Ham and" and Eddie dove for that pile of rifles was a caution! It was now dark and the cook fire was burning brightly; so Eddie stopped just long enough to kick dirt on the flames before running to his prearranged post. There we lay, one on each side of the hollow, with our pets singing like nightingales suffering from acute indigestion. Presently...
Generally, speaking, the Harvard undergraduate attitude certainly tends more to caution, to coolness, to skepticism, than does that of most other colleges; but this, conceivably, is only an aspect of the general Harvard tendency to look things over a little more carefully than is apt to be done elsewhere. And while the undergraduate body may be less reconsiderable doubt whether the Harvard ligious than some others, it is open to alumni would not average up about as much religion per captia as would the graduates of most other large universities...
Even then the Forecasts had the Wanderlust and before long Caution Forecast and his wife, Prudence embarked tourist third class, for Plymouth, Mass, on the May flower. Oh this voyage their three children, triplets, were barn. They would be known as The First Americans, for they were born within the three-mile limit, but unfortunately they had no passports and were not allowed to land. It was a sad day for the Forecast family when these three miles of humanity had to be thrown overboard. And that almost broke the Forecast line, for poor Prudence could not stand the rigors...
Lenin's Warning: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary [of the Communist Party] has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution...
...notions of the play and the first performances, sound more like a casual account of deciding to play gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved to find that this artist leave such things to the imagination and keeps his stirrings deep within him. It is too true...