Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei, but it seemed a rather tiny exploit to be boasting about. Most likely the cautious Communists were trying to sound out the specific U.S. intentions in Formosa Strait...
West Virginia school districts with small Negro populations are launching cautious integration plans this fall. Districts with large Negro populations are waiting...
...ways of art experts are usually cautious and often strange. A case in point is the history of a small oil Pieta at the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa. In 1893 the painting bore a label boldly attributing it to Rubens. Later, when critics questioned the label, the museum withdrew the painting from view. In 1910 it went on exhibit again, cautiously identified as a "school of Rubens" work. In 1920 the authorities relabeled the painting "Unknown. From school of Rubens?" By 1928 they had lost all confidence, reattributing the canvas to an "unknown Genoese of the 18th century." Back...
...laboratory, Dr. Schein got more and more excited as he followed a peculiar ray track through the pack. The track was a bundle of slim Vs made by pairs of negative and positive electrons and there was no trace of larger charged particles (e.g., protons) usually present. His cautious conclusion: "something" had hit the film pack with the unheard-of energy of 10 million billion electron-volts...
Actually, the educators have been cautious about TV with good reason. First of all, the initial cost (ranging from $32,980 to $754,160) and annual expense ($25,000 to $500,000) are high. Furthermore, FCC has allotted only UHF (ultra high frequency) channels to education in many areas, and this means that set owners have to buy tuners costing about $30 to receive the UHF transmissions. Nevertheless, last week six pioneer educational TV stations-four run by universities and two by cities-were on the air. If their progress has been slow, it has nonetheless been sure. Items...