Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British government has set itself against economic coercion for political ends. And the volunteer Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies probably has sufficient efficiency to provide a tenuous connection with the necessaries of life...
...teams in place of the present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such plan as that suggested here is in effect. Whether or not there is any connection between these two facts, it will be the new committee's duty to consider...
...calls it "the world gas" instead of by its more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times...
Several days of negotiations ended with unfavorable results and M. Van der Velde was forced to give up his Cabinet architecture. At best, his support would have been tenuous and his Government would consequently have been always at the mercy of dissident Catholics...
...accepted a fee to represent his client before the Department of the Interior (TIME, May 26, June 2, THE CONGRESS). The new indictment for conspiracy reveals no new evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry M. Daugherty from office, claims these conspiracy charges are "reprisals...