Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They left the municipal airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused...
Thus the concrete proposals in the British plan dealt only with limitation of the strength of individual ships, and not with limitation of the number of ships or global tonnage. Since something had to be said about this, the British proposal contained a cautious but very interesting observation...
...need to be cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...
...side cf a quarter-million dollars to his owner, Frank Curzon, London theatrical manager, onetime actor. Another onetime roving actor, William Kilpatrick, 40, who had settled down as a dentist's assistant in Africa, held Call Boy's ticket in the Calcutta sweepstakes. It paid $814,800.* Cautious Mr. Kilpatiick had sold half of his ticket to a syndicate for $50,000, so his personal profit was only $457,400. William Jones, 60, retired clerk living peacefully at Felixtowe, won the Stock Exchange sweepstakes of $363,750 after selling three-quarters of his ticket...
...modest financial provision had been made, the new School would have so demonstrated its usefulness that its support would be ensured. The newly appointed dean insisted that it would take at least fifteen years to come to anything like maturity, measured by both qualitative and quantitative tests. That cautious prediction has been abundantly fulfilled. By the end of twelve years from the foundation of the Business School in 1908, despite the interruption caused by the war, there had been a steady growth in number of students and in the prestige of the School. But, as Dean Donham remarked when...