Word: tenuousness
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When conflicting facts were discovered by increasingly sensitive instruments, physicists tended to ignore them, or to explain them away by highly artificial creations. Most famous of these was the ether-a tenuous material supposed to fill all space. Ether was necessary (in Newtonian physics) for carrying light waves...
...inventing the tenuous notion of a threat-of-a-threat, the subcommittee had achieved at least a promise-of-a-promise of world order...
...soul remained attached by a tenuous chord to his heart within seven feet of his mortal body...
Russian power stopped at the Khalka River, which divides Outer from Inner Mongolia. Led by young Prince Teh, the Inner Mongolians remained unregenerately separate, tribal, lama-ridden and unso-vietized. In return for 50,000 silver dollars monthly, they owned a tenuous allegiance to the Chinese Republic. But in Outer Mongolian eyes, Inner Mongolia was an area for future redemption...
Major Way Stations. The Philippines, notably Luzon, have land masses which were marked, even before Bataan and Corregidor fell, as inevitable staging areas for armies about to descend upon Japan. Yet the U.S. command had only the most tenuous contact with the Philippines two years ago, by submarine or occasional U.S. aircraft landing on a secret strip on Mindanao...