Word: prudently
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...Failure to deduct depreciation reserves in arriving at rate base values has permitted the Bell System to earn a return on amounts far in excess of the investment made by the owners." Rates should be based on the "prudent investment" theory espoused by Franklin Roosevelt...
...first third of the book tells of Joseph's trip into Egypt, the slave of a prudent, toothless old merchant who recognized his talents, purchased him and planned to sell him to a household where his gifts might be valued. For the 17-year-old Joseph, intelligent, intuitive, and up held by a mysterious conviction of his destiny, the trip is a succession of marvels...
...years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene and violent, free in her manner but irreproachable in her conduct, she was indolent, simple, with a streak of exuberance and humor that could be disconcerting to a prudent husband. They had been married for 15 years and, except for the fact that each blamed the other because they had no children, they were content...
...James Roosevelt, who went to hear her grandson defend her son told the Kiwanis Club of New York that Franklin Roosevelt was named not for prudent Ben Franklin but "after an English friend of his great-grandfather...
...Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians, Voluptuousness of the Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before the Revolution broke out and leaving the part of Spain he was in seemed the prudent thing to do. At the Milch Galleries, a young U. S. painter of romantic renown showed 19 unusual paintings of the Maine coast. Husky Stephen Etnier, Yale '26, married pretty Elizabeth Jay, of Westbury, L. L, and took her to sea on his schooner, the Morgana. Then they bought...