Word: tenuousness
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Kazin said that the walk-out meant that "the tenuous alliance of radicals and liberals was broken-not because it had to-but because the liberals and Socialist Worker Party insisted on keeping the movement where it is." The necessity is now to "build a revolutionary movement, not just a huge march," he said...
...been expected, and as Harvard had feared, the meet went down to the final event-the one-mile relay, with the Crimson holding a tenuous 44-10 lead McCurdy had said before the meet that the Harvard entry would be lucky to place fifth in that relay...
...Cornell's second victory over Brown, 5-1, at Ithaca last Saturday, put the Big Red four points ahead of second-place Dartmouth. Although triumphs over Harvard and Brown this week would give the Indians a tie for the league lead, their standing at the top would be quite tenuous. Dartmouth has yet to play Cornell...
...expedition will carry out three major experiments, all involving the outer corona. This is a tenuous gas, thinner than any man-made vacuum, and heated by two million degrees centigrade. Although the inner part of the corona can be seen through special narrow band filters without an eclipse, a total solar eclipse is essential to study the whole structure, including the outer portion, of the corona...
...theory was so unorthodox and tenuous that Hess cautiously called it "geopoetry." It was soon to become geo-fact. After studying Hess's work, a 24-year-old Cambridge University graduate student, Frederick J. Vine, proposed an ingenious test. The iron in the lava from the mid-ocean ridges, he suggested, should be imprinted with the direction of the earth's magnetic field prevailing at the time that the lava cooled off. But patterns in land rocks had already shown that the magnetic field has inexplicably reversed itself as many as 171 times in the past 76 million...