Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mediate between China & Japan. Despite his own disclaimer, Tuan Chi-jui is not without ability nor undeserving. Convinced that Japan & China must sooner or later become reconciled, Tuan has headed all these years the so-called "Anfu Clique," a group of second-string Chinese statesmen who have kept up cautious contacts with Japan...
...Legation in Copenhagen last week officials, sympathetic with Denmark's plight, said off the record that the Danish National Bank has for some time been informally discriminating against U.S. exports. Such action probably violates the U. S.-Danish most favored nation treaty, but Washington has made only cautious, informal protests. Reason: a squabble now would merely embitter U. S. Danish relations, would make it harder for President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make a success of his policy of tariff bargaining with foreign nations...
...lesser concreteness, been concealed from public attention, the second has been painfully obvious. For the long term loans which made the physical improvements possible were made in terms of inflated values; the deflation of the past three years has made the burden on the budgets of less cautious communities a heavy one. The call for retrenchment is not only inevitable, it is just...
...artists have been so honored in their lifetime. Born in Detroit in 1860, Gari Melchers was sent abroad at 17 to study painting-at Düsseldorf because his cautious parents considered Paris no place for a young man from Detroit. At 29 he won the grand medal of honor in the Paris Salon, an honor only two other U. S. artists have won (John Singer Sargent and James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
...reports have been that Scot Mac-Donald is suffering from "cerebral anemia" or brain fatigue. Even the cautious Times has discussed the subject guardedly. Recently at Oxford, extremely polite Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, lecturing on "The Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases...