Word: prudently
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Josef Stalin is "too prudent" to launch a war against the West, Alan G. Kirk, Jr., former ambassador to Russia, said in an interview Friday...
...Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter of oil). Did the War Office fear a war? Not at all, said a spokesman-just being vigilant and prudent in order to stay calm...
...balanced combination of faith and reason which St. Thomas Aquinas made the Roman Catholic ideal. He holds deep religious and social convictions but has seldom been known to raise his voice in argument. As a religious journalist, in a field overripe with invective, he has kept his arguments lean, prudent and confidently patient. As he once wrote, "I am not so much trying to persuade people to walk on a certain road, as I am to show them the road that I am convinced they are sooner or later going to walk...
...York State last year passed the "prudent man" rule. It allows trustees to buy common stocks, up to 35% of the trust's value, which a prudent man might buy for his own investment. Last week Irving Trust Co. Vice President Earl S. MacNeill reported that of $350 to $400 million eligible for such purchases in New York, trustees had invested not much more than half in common stocks. Reason: trustees think that stock prices are too high, are waiting to buy when they drop...
Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library, including all save...