Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...design represents a substantial departure from the conventional classroom layout. For that reason, it was deemed prudent to construct a mock-up room for experimental purposes. On the basis of experience in the test room, it should be possible to make substantial improvements in the design before the final plans for Aldrich Hall are completed...
...other trunk line in the U.S. Its radio communications system, linking the engineer with the caboose and with wayside dispatchers, is the most elaborate in the U.S.; its accident rate is less than half the U.S. railroad average. Wall Street's scarlet woman has become as correct and prudent as a Park Avenue dowager...
...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...
From Peking south to Canton, belligerent Red China shouted new watchwords: "Beware of burrowing! Beware of air raids!" Burrowing meant the anti-Communist underground. Retaliatory U.N. air raids seemed a grim possibility in the Red mind; like prudent, undaunted soldiers, the aggressors in Peking were preparing for the worst...
...Catholic concept, because this is a democratic age and democracy stresses the rights of individuals . . . You'll see that when the Dutch Catholics become a majority,* Holland will be a tolerant country-not because Dutch Catholics are indifferent to truth, not because they'll deem it prudent to be tolerant, nor again out of charity, but because they are aware of the individual rights of non-Catholics to tolerance...