Word: prudently
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...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...
There are, of course, weighty arguments to explain the Senior's hesitation in donning Cap and Gown. No doubt he dislikes to be reminded of how near he has come to the end of "bright college years". Perhaps, too, being of a prudent disposition, he has stored away his dignified robes to keep them unsoiled for Commencement. But modesty has probably been his strongest motive: "Nobody else is doing it." Conspicuousness is not particularly pleasant; it is easier to follow the leader. And the natural leaders, the class officers, have been as hesitant as any about beginning the custom...
...criticizing the Administration's foreign policy. Certainly there has been a turn toward a more favorable view of European participation recently, and the charges which the Democratic congressmen had stored up for use during the recess would have been effective ammunition against the party in power. The President's prudent compromise, which accepts the Court without the League, will considerably dampen those stories...
...Forbes, competent observers and students do not think the Filipinos ready yet to govern themselves. They feel too, and rightly, that though authority of the United States cease by complete independence in the Island our responsibility still exists. With this opinion from two of our experts it is only prudent to disregard the resolutions of the Filipinos and advise them to wait. When there is assurance that the child can care for itself, parental authority may be removed...
...unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight...