Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineer John Russ, seeing Mr. Pruden, tried to obey, put on the emergency brakes, also blew the locomotive's whistle. Prudent Mr. Pruden, noticing that the train had only been able to slow down to 40 miles per hour as it approached him, jumped. The locomotive's cowcatcher nipped him, knocked him 50 feet...
...were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this was prudent for France is the avowed protectress of Poland, and never was such protection more needed than last week, when Russo-Polish strife hung in the air. Shelved. The Council postponed consideration of the Albania-Jugoslavia dispute (TIME, June 6), and delayed to the September League Assembly all actions upon...
...Majesty can and did, in his youthful seafaring days, utter commands with appropriate oaths. He is still, at 62, one of the very best bird shots in England. And, though he hunts and rides often, he is always prudent enough to choose a horse of the right weight. Thus George V is not flung off constantly, as is that really excellent horseman Edward of Wales, who, however, insists upon always riding too heavy and powerful a horse...
...Prudent Japanese law ordinarily debars army men from a political career...
...Brien's report last week that Standard Gas & Electric Co. of Chicago owns public utility properties worth $873,135,568 and has total assets of practically a billion dollars ($973,859,382) may startle governmental officials already queasy with suspicion of public utility holding corporations such as this. Prudent, President O'Brien warded off aspersion: "Public utilities cannot be operated economically in small units. Only by grouping them into large, strong organizations can they be favorably financed, scientifically engineered and successfully operated so as to render services at the lowest reasonable cost to the user...