Word: caveats
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...peace must turn from Hitler's time-worn protestations to England's belatedly firm stand. Britain's unequivocal warning that she will fight if Hitler marches may shunt the Sudeten crises back to the channels of discussion and conciliation. If so, it may prove to be the first effective caveat to Fascism and permit us to hope that the victory of democracy is really coming...
...Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception...
...Caveat Editor...
...project of the Council and fairly reeks of Grand Central Station. The founders have likened concentrators in any field to purchasers of a product who have no adequate way of knowing what they are getting. In the inglorious past, so far as we know, Harvard's motto has been: caveat emptor...
...Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services...