Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wreckage, Finland is trying to save the tenuous thread of relations with its old and powerful friend, the U.S. The Finns hope that the end of their long road of misery will at least find Nazi troops gone and no Russian troops replacing them...
...dissolves like sugar in hot tea. On cooling, the adipic acid crystallizes out and is purified, while the diamine remains in solution and can be purified by distillation. The two white crystalline chemicals resulting from this unscrambling of nylon fiber are then recombined and polymerized to form the long, tenuous molecules that give nylon its strength and elasticity. This new liquid nylon, identical with the original substance, can be squeezed out into the types of fiber needed for war uses...
Britain has assumed-rightly or wrongly is beside the point-the definite obligation to lead India to honorable adult membership of the family of free and equal nations, either inside or outside the tenuous bonds of the British Commonwealth. The development of Indian self-government has been clearly denned British policy since 1917. In 1929 it was clearly stated by the British Government that Dominion status within the Empire was India's manifest destiny, a free and equal partnership with the other self-government Dominions. India could have had such status for the taking in 1935. She has recently...
...MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
...previous presidential candidate, has left behind his record of foggy platitudes. No longer can he be labeled simply "Republican," with the overtones of Fishy Taftism. Willkie and the Old Guard have been estranged since his announced support of the President's foreign policy. After Monday's speech, even those tenuous bonds are finally shattered. The former "barefoot boy from Wall Street" has subjected Tory imperialism and Dollar Diplomacy to the most scathing public denunciation in recent years...