Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night, there was a quiet dinner, the Coolidge's, the Machado's, the Kellogg's, the Hughes's and a few more. Next morning came the great event. President Coolidge went before the Pan-American Congress and to it addressed the following cautious, calculated sentiments...
...Lieut. Worden answered questions, the faces of his fellow Navy men relaxed. Slowly but steadily, any blame for the collision was shifted from the Paulding to the 8-4, though the latter's chief, the late Lieut. Commander Roy K. Jones, was described as an almost "overly cautious" officer...
...other invention is an explosive which consists of finely divided carbonaceous material (coal, root, etc.) which liquid air, under cautious control, ignites. It is "cheaper and more volatile than dynamite...
...flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing the dangerous northern route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came down on the Spanish coast. With him came down a navigator, a mechanic and E. B. Hosmer, rich Montrealer who had paid him huge, sums ($10,000 was quoted) for a ride across the Atlantic...
Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...