Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly every industry, of course, can claim some wartime usefulness, no matter how tenuous the thread connecting it with military production. After the President had approved the demands of American watch-makers for increased tariffs, last year, even fertilizer and gut-string factories filed clever rationalizations for protection...
...many of these subscribers have long since dissolved their ties with the University. Their affiliation with the "Harvard family" is tenuous when compared to that of any student. To make the B.S.O. Sanders tradition meaningful, therefore, the Administration should prune from the subscribers list, people who are no longer attached to the University. It should then allot the extra seats, not to the most "eligible" persons applying for season's subscriptions, but on a "rush" basis to the first students who show up before each concert. In this way, Harvard music-lovers would have at least some chance of sharing...
...Harvard House, which stands in Stratford on-Avon, was established as a memorial to John Harvard in 1909 under letters of patent granted by King Edward VII, although in actual fact the founder's connection with the building is very tenuous...
...comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
...required connection between film subjects and the purposes of undergraduate organizations already is in danger. For the petition which the HLU has submitted to present All the King's Men clearly shows that the tenuous line between a proper and improper film will not prevent a club from remaining in the movie business...