Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White Paper. Just now London is significantly close to Ottawa. English Conservatives see eye to eye with Conservative Canadian Premier Bennett, rich lawyer. Last week it was Premier Bennett who set a new Empire precedent by issuing a Canadian White Paper on the Irish Free State. Cautious, lawyerish, it suggested that Mr. de Valera might find, after abolishing the Oath to the King in Dublin, that by this act he had cut loose the Irish Free State from enjoying Empire privileges?including the preferential duties which States within the Empire grant to each other's goods. Can an Oath...
...four members of his regular congregation attended. Even the organist, a cautious lady, stayed away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping crowds from miles around. The church was packed. Special police had to handle the crowds. Dr. Davidson preached on the Resurrection, as befitted the season, but added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage...
...decree signed jointly with Premier Molotov (cautious Stalin never takes sole responsibility), 125 managers of State cattle ranches were dismissed and 35 of them indicted for criminal mismanagement (punishable by shooting). The decree, postulating that many of Russia's present breeding ranches are too large, ordered them split up by the creation of 102 new ranches, menaced with dire threats ranch managers who have ignored previous orders to breed on a strict cost accounting basis...
Since every important Soviet step is supposed to be taken in a direction pointed out by Lenin, cautious Stalin is rebuking the Communists and trade unionists of Nizhnii Novgorod, reminded them that one of Lenin's slogans was: "Absolute obedience to the will of one man?namely the Soviet manager?during working hours!" Motor car production, the Dictator ordered, must be up to schedule within six months...
Overcoming early period leads of Brown, McGill, Dartmouth and Yale, Harvard showed a well-organized four-man attack good enough to penetrate even the most cautious of five-man defense systems. It is not to be supposed that Harvard underwent a let-down in form in the last two Yale games. Rather it was Yale, with the reattainment of its early season brand of play that made the Elis the most feared team in this region, that gave the lie to long odds placed on the Crimson at the start of the series...