Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Masters have consistently reiterated that they will bend every effort towards making their Houses represent a cross section of The College. There can be no airtight method of arriving at a true cross section; men may be classified in a multitude of ways; some men will fall in a great many classes, some only in a few. The mathematics of things are too complicated to allow exact treatment, and only a very human sort of approximation can be made. Much depends upon an unbiased attitude on the part of the choosers and a clear sighted understanding of the difficulties...
...house is glassed in on all sides by hollow flasks of an unbreakable material partially exhausted of air. They are of a triangular shape and are held in place by rubber tubing which fits in grooves in the edges and when filled with compressed air, tightens to form an airtight enclosure of high tensile strength...
Early last week, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition prosecutions, conferred in Manhattan with Maurice Campbell, local Prohibition administrator, to settle the exact details of evidence-collection that would ensure airtight cases against the violators. Then, to prevent "leaks," the raiding squad was locked in an office without a telephone for four hours and kept there until specific instructions were issued...
...team played errorless ball in support of airtight pitching by E. B. Samborski '31, overwhelming Exeter by a 12 to 1 count...
...LIGHT BEYOND? E. Phillips Oppenheim?Little, Brown ($2). All of Author Oppenheim's 100 previous novels have possessed that first and most important element of good or even of great novels, plots which, if not airtight, will at least hold the swift and perishable liquid of a reader's excitement. His technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance...