Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their cue from President Hoover in predicting, almost to the day, when it would end. The failure of these forecasts eventually reduced the White House to glum silence, muffled the Cabinet. Last week, however, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament uttered one more Administration prophecy. Prophet Lament was very cautious, very vague. Said he: "The apparent retardation in the rate of downward movement in several basic indexes of business, supports the belief that the elements of recession have now spent most of their force. . . . While it is impossible to forecast at what time unmistakable evidence of improvement in business will...
With Rocknesque strategy, Coach Wade sent out his second team to start with. Washington State, unable to gain, was cautious. Both sides kicked, watched for breaks. Suddenly Alabama's huge All-American tackle, Fred Sington. tore off his sweater, rushed onto the field; with him came Backfielders Cain, Suther, Campbell. In a few minutes Jimmy Moore slid in from the end as though in a reverse, took the ball from Campbell, tossed it far down the field to Flash Suther, who had no one to stop him. Eberdt intercepted a Washington State pass and in two plays the Tide...
...York and Pennsylvania, Midget Wolgast is flyweight champion of the world because he won an elimination tournament sanctioned by the boxing boards in those States. Everywhere else Frankie Genaro, elderly and cautious Italian, is champion. Last week in Madison Square Garden the two champions sparred 15 rounds to decide it once for all. Wolgast flopped his long hair up and down, bounced off the ropes, flickered his harmless sewing-machine-needle left with no results. He won four rounds and began to tire. Genaro hit him twice in the left eye with a punch supposed to be fatal...
...England), that "a little serious work" would make him the best shot in England; because though he might be tainted with impractical Liberal notions, he was known as an administrator who would stand no nonsense. But for all his love of sport, Lord Willingdon is not young (64). Cautious observers questioned whether he had the physical strength to meet the trying task that awaits him. Murmured the London Times: "[He] will need something more vigorous than charm and tact...
...reparation payments in Berlin (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.). Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned as board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to go abroad and try to make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations. One short year ago publicists...