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Having thus made a clean breast of the fact that caution was indeed the mainspring of wisdom last week for Great Britain, the Prime Minister added with further candor that so far as he could see the people of Italy and the people of Germany are now just about the only ones in Europe who do have stomach to fight. "I feel convinced," added Mr. Baldwin, "that in many countries, including our own and France, there is such loathing of war . . . that I sometimes wonder if they would march [i.e., fight] on any other occasion than if they believed their...
...does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets Betty Winslow (Frances Drake) when she is arrested for driving 72 m.p.h. in a 30-m.p.h. zone. His efforts to educate her to caution involve a visit to the morgue and the exhibition of a police newsreel of traffic smashups. When her alcoholic brother Jackie (Tom Brown) smashes into a school bus, killing the young son of the cop who arrested her for speeding, she takes the blame and goes to jail for murder...
When the field of 76 went out to play the last two rounds, a dozen golfers were bunched in the lead all within four strokes of each other. Cooper, nicknamed "Light Horse Harry" because he plays without the exaggerated caution of most of his colleagues, made a 70 which was spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced...
Biochemistry as a field of concentration should be viewed with caution by those interested in science. Although the subject is a definite science in itself, at Harvard the staff and facilities are so limited that, while the Department covers a wide range of subject matter, most of its material is useful only to the pre-medical students...
...just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League of Nations. In secret recommendations to the Foreign Office, the committee added this warning: ''The Government must move with the utmost caution...