Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cordial shop is easily identified. It is a small, neat store in the window of which are some ginger ale or nonalcoholic liqueur bottles, or a pot of flowers. No longer is liquor on display inside; cautious vendors now keep it under a counter, behind a partition, or in an ice box out back. In some stores a prospective purchaser must bring an introduction or answer questions, but in most of them all comers are served with cheerful uniformity...
...heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys." Their resemblance to shinny sticks has caused hurling to be thought of as a form of field hockey. But the method in which hurleys are used suggests instead that golf is a form of hurling modified by a more cautious race...
...South (TIME, April 13). Last week cotton hovered just above 6? per Ib., which meant that Gum Man Wrigley had so far sustained a 40% paper loss. But 6? cotton looked like a good investment to another Chicagoan. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr., president of Cudahy Packing Co. More cautious than Gum Man Wrigley, Meat Packer Cudahy announced that he would invest 10% of his company's Southern sales in cotton until $1,000,000 has thus been spent. At current prices a purchase of some 33,000 bales was involved...
...face of a McLarnin who had come into the ring poised, apparently, for one hard punch to precede his triumphant handspring. Their next fight was less exciting; McLarnin, who had seemed heroic in his defeat, dismayed his admirers by retreating around the ring and outpointing Petrolle with a cautious left...
From Portland (Ore.) came Kenneth D. Dawson representing the powerful Dollar interests of the Pacific and Herbert Fleischhacker, San Francisco's burly banker. Cautious Mr. Dawson studied the situation. Last week Robert Stanley Dollar arrived in New York to see for himself what might be done to help the tottering Eastern interests. Large, spectacled Mr. Dollar, son of 87-year-old Captain Robert Dollar, believes, like his father, in a U. S. merchant marine even if it must be founded on Government subsidy. Should the Dollars become the eventual purchasers of U. S. Lines it would mean new faces...