Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as the problems of mental hygiene in the U. S. are so varied, many of them tenuous, the committee could formulate no exact program of relief. Their best was to advocate, and devote themselves to fighting bad conditions where they met them...
...tenuous, never-changing loveliness...
...however, of the greater or lesser critics of things educational are going to judge this latest method of hedging the college degree by such whimsical, tenuous phenomena. They will want to know definitely whether or not this ordeal of fire really tested any ability, really helped an individual toward what might be called "sweetness" what can be called "light...
...criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this world of life and letters rather tenuous and not half so formidable as that which Aristotle, Longinus, Boileau, St. Beuve, Dryden, Goethe, Coleridge, Saintsbury, Paul Elmer More, Mark Van Doren and a few others have possessed...
...process not too costly or laborious to be adopted industrially. By some ingenious discovery he had readily reduced the gas temperature to very nearly absolute zero. The significance: solid helium, crystalline and transparent in glass tubes, would transport far more handily than the gaseous form. Helium gas is so tenuous that it would take comparatively few tubes of the solid to fill a dirigible...