Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just now the Prime Minister is proceeding on a rather tenuous theory: instead of feeling obliged to resign on any adverse vote (which is theoretically his parliamentary duty), he will cling to power until the House, egged on by the Leader of the Opposition, unmistakably demands his resignation...
Like a crescent moon through a fog, the tenuous edge of a great physiological discovery appeared at Cornell University last week. Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, authoritative student of colloid chemistry, and Dr. G. Holmes Richter, research fellow, have been using an ultramicroscope on living sensory nerves...
...Professor Hanna eventually dis proved those tenuous charges of modern ism. He obediently accepted the whole papal program. Pius X relented, made him auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and titular bishop of Titopolis (1912). A new Pope, Benedict XV, promoted the onetime suspect to the archiepiscopal throne...
...only positive element which stands forth as a distinctive mark of the author. The adventures of Lewis are true to form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter are the bright points...
...issue riddled Senate has rejected Judge Parker who has been a storm cearer in the question of filling the Supreme Court chair left vacant by the late Justice Sanford. Party lines have been more tenuous than they were in the good days when a Republican lived on bread and beer a Democrat lived on bread and beer and both fought for hours about the tariff...