Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become as tenuous as the now somewhat archaic distinction between "good" and "bad" trusts. It is likely, however, that Mr. Kendall and his associates are interested primarily in the moral effect of their crusade. As far as immediate profits are concerned testimonial campaigns have been almost universally successful. They are an obvious...
...CRIMSON does not believe that its proponents think that it can, or consider it desirable. The true university spirit of communism for the individual rather than for a series of cohesive entities is an obstacle to the success of any effort to organize Harvard College along group lines, however tenuous...
...once proud democracy of the Commonwealth is facing a very real danger: no tenuous theory of possible powers is involved, but the actual undermining of the New England tradition of individual and local liberty. The Association of Selectmen has marked the need of resistance; their protest must remain impotent until the voters overcome post-campaign lethargy and give sinews to such opposition...
...Three Season" by Mr. Parker is a prolonged lyric in decasyllabic rymed double quatrains, which, in spite of its occasional cliches and vaguely tenuous theme, is well sustained and successful...
...family likes to think that one of it's children will, some day, become a violinist, a poet or a painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting...