Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanelli said that the details were still "tenuous and tentative," but the plans for the building have been drawn and the site has been chosen. The addition will be to the south side of Mallinckrodt, behind New Lecture Hall...
When a satellite finally slows and plunges to destruction in the lower atmosphere, its slowing can be followed from the earth. Then scientists can derive new information about the tenuous air that persists at 200 miles above the surface...
Solar Clouds. What had changed since 1951? For one thing, Professor Neher pointed out, the sun had decreased its "activity," shooting out less gaseous matter than it did a few years before. He believes that this thin stuff, mostly hydrogen, drifts in enormous, tenuous clouds through the solar system. Each cloud carries its own magnetic field, and when the clouds are numerous, they fill the solar system with magnetic obstacles in the path of the cosmic rays. The weak ones cannot make the grade. They curve off into space and never reach the inner region where the earth revolves...
...prints in his long career, the Eclogues was his first major try at book illustration. Like all lasting illustrations, his works liberate rather than confine the imagination of the reader. He presents no bluntly defined scenes but bathes the pages in storms, mists and sunny fields of color. His tenuous drawing comes through the color only by degrees; then it whispers convincingly of the lofty world and divine forms that Virgil more robustly describes. Whether Villon is picturing the morning sun or a fertile valley at evening (opposite), he excites the observer's memory and imagination to fill...
...West, then, seems to be in a fairly good immediate position but in a very tenuous one in the long run. At the moment, with Adenauer's government violently against neutralization, we can reject with impunity any Russian proposal for reunification on that basis. But such a negative policy is not enough. It would be far better to go to the conference with a positive proposal for reunification on the basis of free alliance, which the Russians would refuse. This at least would put the Russians would refuse. This at least would put the Russians, not the West...