Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last six years Mr. Fisher's service has been marked by whole hearted cooperation in every way with the policies of the Committee. He has never been self-seeking in the least degree; but has warmly supported every suggestion looking to the effective training of his teams and the prudent economical administration of the football budget. Judged by results alone his success as a coach cannot be questioned if our victories in Yale games are to be the measure of that success; for in those six years his teams have won four such victories. His personal relations with the Committee...
Radio listeners, being human, want the best of everything. But they don't always get it. The nightly ether-music is too often indirect advertising. Prudent musicians object to the broadcasting of their programs; people won't buy seats in stuffy concert halls if they can stay at home and listen to the same thing. For these and allied reasons, the Chicago Civic Opera will not broadcast its performances this Winter...
...support and strengthen the beginnings which have been made in the direction of a national budget. We must have, in addition, an economy which consists not merely in securing a dollar's worth for every dollar spent, but that far less popular form of economy which imitates the prudent householder in doing without the things one wishes but cannot at the time afford. Economy, however, begins at the wrong end when it attacks the pay of government employes, who are justly entitled to pay equal to that they would receive from private employers for similar work...
...placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman...
...hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds in the bright blue bay where, disturbed hardly by a single shell, floated the great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal...