Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau's reading course does not count for credit and costs $15. After approximately 15 class meetings, the average student rises from the lower quarter of his class to the upper quarter in performance on reading tests. Perry and Wilcox caution, however, that the skimming methods taught in the course are best suited only to general expository material...
...There is at present," he said, "a sickness in our country-a sickness of rumor and anxiety, of suspicion and distrust ... In part this sickness is due to overemphasis on caution ... In part it is an anti-intellectualism, a strange and dangerous lack of faith in scholarly competence...
...Caution & Hope. As the year began, every businessman knew that the dip in business towards the end of 1953 had raised a great question for 1954: How well could the Administration, with its growing set of economic tools, help industry to combat the drop? The test came at a crucial time for an Administration determined to balance the budget and get government out of business. With the Korean war ended, huge cuts in defense spending were due. Farm income had been falling for two years, and the Administration intended to dump the rigid-support prices that had lessened the slide...
...appliances and other consumer goods. In their caution businessmen were cutting inventories at the rate of $4 billion a year, and consumers were watching their pennies...
Many of them blamed the slopeline approach lights. In the official instructions distributed to its pilots by American Airlines appears the following entry for Idlewild Airport: "Caution! Slopeline approach lights in operation on Runway 4 can be mistaken for runway." The same warning is given about the slopeline lights at Washington and Los Angeles. No matter what is decided about last week's crash, many pilots will believe that the Italian captain tried to land on the water between the piers...