Word: prudently
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...Fundamentally, it is the story of the girl who marries the wrong man. "Absolutely dazzling . . . with her white skin, golden hair, classical features," Mlle. de Chartres appears at the court of Henry II of France. Everybody thinks her very beautiful, and the Prince of Cleves, a dim young man "prudent beyond his years," becomes her suitor. At her mother's urging, she marries him.Then she meets the Due de Nemours, "the most fascinating man at court," and realizes for the first time what true love is. The Princess has been too well brought up to break her marriage vows...
...faith. Who in our day thinks of the resources of another age-morale, the will to health, valor . . .? But these things are still powerful . . . The faith of the patient, his will to recover and to live, to recover by life and for life, are a powerful support for our prudent counsels...
...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...