Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies, rapidly moving words and phrases projected on a screen. Gaping eyes were taught to scan the printed page, moving quickly over the lines and making fewer stops than had been their habit. The results gained by the "remedial reading class" were immensely significant despite the justly cautious attitude of the directors of the experiment, for not only did the Guinea Pigs increase their reading speed approximately fifty per cent, but half of their number showed definite improvement in their marks from November to February. In spite of this striking indication of the relation between reading ability and the mastery...
...well-written story of minor moment, laid at Harvard and in Mexico (where Wells Lewis has spent the last few summers), They Still Say No concerns the sex life of a Harvard undergraduate. Hero is a tall, dapper, literary innocent named Crane Stewart. Engaged to a cautious girl named Julia, Crane harkens to the lusty bad advice of his pal Jeff, frightens Julia away in a blundering attempt at seduction. At a Park Avenue party, with a girl who is willing, luck is again against him. That summer he goes to Mexico to visit his uncle, falls in love with...
During late years we have cheered at our football games, watched our cheer leader essay a few cautious "flips", and we even went so far as to hold a football "pep" rally (horrors!) to show the team our support. A few years back the Harvard riots were thing to be talked about. These are all Joe College activities, and yet we have never stigmatized them by that appellation. they constitute an example of Harvard's regeneration from a played-up, highly publicized and dramatized, artificial indifference which is not nearly so fundamental as we are led to believe...
...novel: intellectuals are hawks, plain citizens are sparrows. Intellectual Kipter, a bearded, philosophical, moulting bird, goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals than a warning to intellectuals...
...hostess of the famed appeasement-favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners...