Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wallet of every cautious German bulged week ago with an automobile license, a police registration card, a Nazi party card and, for good measure, a passport. Last week Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick stuffed in one more. Hereafter each German must also carry a racial card (sippenblatt: sippe, kin; and blatt, card). After an official investigation of his ancestry, a pure "Aryan" German will be certified as such, an impure one clearly labeled...
...York, Oct. 8--Cautious traders too to the sidelines again tonight as conflicting rumors depressed the market...
...public opinion has reduced cautious Joe Lyons' majority in Parliament, private industry has increased his progeny at home. When the penny-pinching Tasmanian became Premier of Australia three years ago he boasted nine children. Now he has eleven...
Though Methodists and Congregationalists are more famed for radical zeal, there are nevertheless plenty of Presbyterian liberals. To those members of his great, cautious, rock-like church Editor Chaffee will address himself, avoiding theological controversy. Says he: "We seek unity in the Presbyterian Church, not divisions." Guided by a council of able Manhattan pastors, The Presbyterian Tribune will be backed by Presbyterians whose names he declines to reveal...
...with those for Britain's famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion...