Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow the Commissar for War, famed Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, supposed to have been hand-picked by Stalin, issued to the excited Red Army this adroit but cautious order...
...howling irresponsible minority, the House Democrats evidenced a willingness to dip into the Federal till for anything and anybody. Now that they are in the saddle and conscientiously building up a record to exhibit to the electorate in November, these same politicians have become more and more careful and cautious...
...legislative program he simply wound up. His geniality, his personal charm, his good social background, will be advanced in his favor?and against them will be set the suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
...controlled by cautious and fuzzy-thinking directors, demands A-1 collateral for all its loans, its services will be little better than that of an ordinary commercial bank. Its friends point out that R. F. C. as an emergency organization must put aside chicken-heartedness, take financial risks, forget about profits and boldly advance its credit on security which, at the moment, looks inferior. Ordinary commercial banking rules must go by the board, it is argued, if R. F. C. is to perform the task the administration...
Several months ago Austrian officials noted remarkable activity among dentists. Cautious peasants were coming down from the mountains eager to fill their honest faces with as many great glittering grinders as possible. Another type of gold bootlegging was springing up: dental supply houses bought gold, sold it at abnormal prices to the timorous. Last week the National Bank abruptly denied all dental supply houses the right to buy and sell gold...