Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Putnam works out his principle that Harvard is the fifth-ranking College in the nation on the rather tenuous principle that the Crimson just barely failed to qualify for the New England championships, while three out of the four colleges that did, went on to win, place, and show respectively in the Nationals...
Even if 250 Russian divisions overran the western continent in ten days, U.S. air and naval superiority operating from this triangle would make Stalin's occupation of Western Europe a more uncertain and tenuous military asset than Hitler...
...Humphrey Bogart, Warner Brothers has forsaken thrillers for the more artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...
...current need for investigation of the '49 Red Book finances shows clearly how inadequate the tenuous control of the Student Council has proven. The Class of '49 has been advised by the probers that the Red Book will be distributed next June. Such assurance may console subscribers holding three dollar receipts, but anxious advertisers may be less elated. Of far larger import than the fate of this year's book is the long run repercussions any additional defection will have on selling space in future Red Books. Patently some supervisory body other than the Council is indicated to unify successive...
...been right about Greenland; and Lansing wrong. The U.S. frontier is now on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to "Seward's Folly," the fortress of North America has a castellated outpost at the northwest angle in Alaska. But at the northeast angle it has only tenuous base rights, to expire with the peace...