Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astounding to him as to the world at large. That an avowedly antagonistic, chronically suspicious France should wait four days before even calling a cabinet meeting to dispatch any sort of a protest was incredible; but that she should furthermore tag along behind a Britain become singularly prudent probably exceeded his fondest expectations...
...nation has tried to accomplish in one generation that which under ordinary and prudent circumstances should take a country 100 years to bring about. The result has been to plunge us head-over-heels into debt, and we are not going to right our condition by going deeper...
This to the Anglo-U. S. diplomats in London seemed a dirty trick. To the French it appealed: i) as prudent propaganda useful in promoting sales to Japan; 2) as a brisk reminder that in 1914 the naval ratio of the Great Powers was: Great Britain 5; France 2.2; the U. S. 2.2; Japan 1.3; and Italy...
Last week 50,000 people poured into small (pop. 5,521) Fairmont, Minn. Besides hotels every spare room for miles around was filled. Though 23 restaurant stands were set up to peddle hamburgers, hot dogs and coffee, many a prudent farmwife brought along great hampers of cold fried chicken, head cheese, hams, doughnuts, layer cakes and pies. Twenty-four State police directed the jammed traffic of cars from as far away as Kansas and Ohio. More exciting than any football game to Fairmont's visitors was that day's sporting event-the 11th annual National Corn Husking Championship...
Published in August by Macmillan, New York, the work deals with the reign of Phillip the Prudent, under whom Spain reached its peak and began its decline, thus bringing to a close the history of the Empire at home and abroad from its beginning to its downfall under Phillip...