Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Tuan suddenly set out from North China for the Capital, Nanking. "I am going to visit my daughter," said he at first. Later: "I am going to enter a monastery and study Buddhism, after I confer with the government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke out that Tuan was carrying to Nanking secret proposals from the Japanese Government. In Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that...
...while his ambition was burning hottest, he kept his head cool and clear enough to make no rash mistakes. He listened carefully to the astute Colonels Howe & House. He trusted hustling Jim Farley to line up the important West and Midwest. He appealed to and for the Forgotten Man without going so far off the deep end of demagoguery that he could not regain his balance among potent conservatives...
...missionaries to Soviet Russia have been so rash in speaking out. But much Protestant mission work does quietly go on, the Baptists being especially quiet, especially successful...
...must not look abroad for a means of mending our economic sore spot, for there are plenty of opportunities for improvement at home. The presidential campaign has revealed little about the economic crisis. I believe that the sad part of the entire campaign is the rash promises that each party has made. Republicans cause the world to shudder when they talk of continuing the practice of high tariff walls, and both parties have come out flat-footed against the cancellation of war debts. The two major parties have refused to tackle the situation from a sane economic standpoint. The strained...
...would be rash," said the austere London Economist last week, "to predict that America is within sight of general economic recovery, for . . . the forces bearing her down are almost as ineluctable as those which . . . forced her to the peak of prosperity. Nevertheless, there is reason to think the Giant of the West has passed the crisis in his sickness...