Word: tenuousness
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...calls it "the world gas" instead of by its more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times...
Several days of negotiations ended with unfavorable results and M. Van der Velde was forced to give up his Cabinet architecture. At best, his support would have been tenuous and his Government would consequently have been always at the mercy of dissident Catholics...
...accepted a fee to represent his client before the Department of the Interior (TIME, May 26, June 2, THE CONGRESS). The new indictment for conspiracy reveals no new evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry M. Daugherty from office, claims these conspiracy charges are "reprisals...
...English poetry, a music that has the sureness of old rhythm and the freedom of new, and a nervous presentation of story conspicuously modern. Last of all, John Marshall in "Poem", curiously classic and free of tradition at once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because too tenuous for sharp perception. And after the last, I find lost among the pages of proof given me for review, "Farewell Chorus" by Howard Doughty quite sure in technical command except for a jarring rhyme of "patter" and "Satyr" for which he should be drawn and quartered if not burnt...
...distrusted Eddyism [Christian Science] . . . recoiled from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...