Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the President's fireside "truce" proposal, which sounded straight forward enough as it came out of loudspeakers, began to take on a tenuous air as White House interpreters got to work on it. Emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins explained that during the "trial period" Labor would not be asked to foreswear the strike. Secretary Stephen Early made it known that employers would still be free to invoke the lockout, and decision to submit their troubles to arbitration or mediation would have to come voluntarily from each side...
...Bingham was correctly reported, his brief is singularly tenuous. If the entire system of intercollegiate sports depended solely upon the wishes or whims of the participating athletes, that in itself would be almost a sufficient reason for its abolition. Mr. Bingham, however, probably meant much more than that. It is not only the athletes themselves but the entire body of undergraduates, and most graduates, who still desire and enjoy those contests that have come to hold so large a place in American life. Whether or not inter-House or intramural sports will ever supplant them is a question...
Chatterton, whose acknowledged forte is registering the anguish of a broken heart, goes through strangely little mental suffering in her current opus, a light comedy so-called, in which she is ably supported by one George Brent. The whole picture though tenuous, is well written, almost always amusing and is excellently played throughout. Dealing as it does with the light whims and vanities of a super-glided Park Avenue aristocracy it could hardly be shown to an audience of unemployed steel workers in Pittsburg without precipitating the downfall of the capitalistic classes, but to those who take the Hollywood conception...
...balanced on the back of a swimming bull and demanded in her booming voice, "Why is de cow sticking out de tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved last week through the four galleries of the U. S. building, gravely inspected one room full of the tenuous, romantic nudes of the late great Arthur B. Davies, stood silent in front of George Wesley Bellows' famed Dempsey-Firpo Fight. Finally she entered a gallery of Amerindian primitive art chosen by John Sloan. There she listened attentively while fluttering Mrs. Garrett delivered a lecture on the differences between...
...scholarship which produces such illusions and permits girls and boys who have fifty years to live to bury themselves in books while the people who will be wholly out of the picture are listening to experts discuss the most vital and immediate matters with which they have only a tenuous and very temporary connection...