Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some, the new inflation spelled trouble. Harvard Economist Sumner H. Slichter urged the Government to clamp the lid on mushrooming consumer credit, now at a near-record $18.6 billion, and admonished businessmen to "exercise caution in the accumulation of inventories." Slichter thought, however, that if employment stays up, the current level of business might easily last for nine months to a year longer...
...entire amount to the Social Aid Foundation ..." The announcer beamed. Everyone thought he obviously meant Evita Peron's richly endowed, much publicized Social Aid Foundation. But Bernardo continued, firmly and clearly: ". . . the Social Aid Foundation of the Socialist Party, of which I happen to be a member." Throwing caution to the winds, the audience burst into cheers...
...hand in front of your mouth: it does not help!"), Historian David Owen ("Don't let yourselves become pedantic and pompous"), Biologist William H. Weston ("Never . . . feel an envious resentment toward [a student] if ... he shows promise of surpassing you"). Well up front, the Handbook offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk in public an endless slack wire over incredible abysses...
...Times never crusades, and carries no daily editorial-page cartoon because, says Sulzberger smilingly: "a cartoon cannot say: 'But on the other hand.'" Part of this caution is due to the powerful tradition left by old Adolph Ochs himself...
...money," he says. "It was a five-eight vibration. After that she did fine." By the time the band played Billy Rose's Casa Mañana, Betty had whipped her own vibrations into enough of a frenzy to dazzle Manhattan at last-and to make Rose caution her not to "tear down my theater...