Word: cautionings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With obvious reluctance, the Swedish Government put caution before valor, confiscated the two offending issues of the Gazette. Last week they confiscated an other. Unlike several Swedish editors who have been arrested (for violating an obsolete press law forbidding "offensive writings" about a foreign State), Torgny Segerstedt did not go to jail...
...delegates threshed some of their differences thin, but left most for later meetings to handle. With thinkers' caution they decided to spend the next two academic years preparing statements of their agreement, to meet again in the fall of 1941 and 1942 to work on their great project: an inclusive system of thought for civilized man. Said the conference: "The departmentalization of human knowledge has been proceeding for more than a century; its integration, with the most valiant efforts, will take more than a meeting of three days...
Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, punched craftily at Great Britain with not more than 1,000 planes in action each 24 hours, sent over in successive sections of 50 or 60 (two squadrons of 27, plus a few heavy Junkers 89 four-motored bombers...
...when he was hit by a truck; in Saranac Lake, N. Y. After supervising five Encyclopaedia editions as managing or U. S. editor, he became editor-in-chief in 1932, retired two years ago. A dauntless pedestrian, Editor Hooper persistently flouted traffic signals, replied to friends' pleas for caution: "We are all going to die some...
Last week a crescendo of war talk swept over U. S. campuses. Commencement speakers dismissed their graduates with words of alarm, caution, doom...