Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with a direful catastrophe. At the last meeting of the H. C. Goodies' Benevolent Association, the prevailing low price of wages was vigorously discussed, and by many it was thought that the only refuge from the present distressing condition of affairs for the guild lay in a general strike. Prudent council finally prevailed, not, however, before very emphatic dissent from the policy of conciliation was expressed by not a few. The dissatisfied ones subsequently met in secret session, and these discussed their wrongs long and earnestly. A plan of proceeding was hit upon and agreed to by all present. After...
...manage the estate and to fill a place in society, he will find a long training is necessary after he has done with Cicero and Homer before he is fit for either employment. Neither Greek nor Latin nor the higher mathematics have brought him a single idea concerning prudent investments, the capabilities of money in the world's different markets, nor yet the best or most effective part to play in a drawing-room. It is, however, but a small minority of the graduates of '82 who will be called to the responsibilities and powers of a life of moneyed...
...those of the average man - that is, neither the best nor the poorest; in this way an opportunity is given to the one to write the paper with distinguished excellence, and to the other with reasonable credit. If instructors are not willing to conform to one of the most prudent regulations of the college, it is to be hoped that the authorities will direct their attention to them and help them realize that it does require somewhat more work to write a paper than to make...
Though he be prudent...