Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty saw the first constructive action to emerge from the biweekly storm-sessions which are rapidly becoming a Harvard institution. More than that, it saw a triumph of a principle proclaimed since the beginning of the controversy by critics of the Administration's tenure policies. The Faculty's resolution--cautious and ambiguous though its terminology may have been--constituted an official sanction of the system of frozen associate professorships...
...generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything she can in her own financial dominions where she does not have to pay in foreign...
This clear headed, cool--yes, quite embarrassingly logical--"rising generation," Mr. McLaughlin, has read the history its fathers made and weighed the old catch-words. "Hysterical inhibitions" seem to me often more obvious in the appeal of "leaders of thought" than in the cautious, let's-look-before-we-leap (this time) discussions of ont only Harvard but all other graduates, and of the un-"exposed to education" young men in our streets...
Last week a subdued President Roosevelt gave reporters a measured and cautious account of his measured and cautious action. On Monday, said he, "there was reason to become alarmed at the possibility of extension of warfare into the Baltic." Next day the Ambassadors of Finland, Sweden and Denmark called at the White House. Wednesday morning the President wrote a note (addressed to President Kalinin of Russia, but intended for Dictator Stalin), left it on his desk for Secretary Cordell Hull to read when he returned from New York at 2 p. m. The Secretary suggested several changes, the note...
...usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise which greeted sulfanilamide, are waiting for further confirmation of the drug's efficacy...