Word: elasticize
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Under the above plan, it would be advisable not to break up a group of men trying to enter the same House, but merely to take care that that end of the cross-section in the House should not become over-balanced. In any case, the ideal of a cross...
"The beach was so rough that on several occasions I thought I was gone. ... I am not easily frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in...
¶ The thin crust is elastic, yields to strains and stresses. Places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are 800 ft. higher than they were 30,000 years ago when the Wisconsin Glacier pressed down upon New England. When the glacier melted the land sprang back to normal elevation. Another...
3 ) Molds for casting are placed in a metallic boxlike vise called a flask, to keep it in shape as the metal is poured in. To overcome the problem of the metals shrinking in cooling, Sculptor Lenz invented a flexible flask made of an elastic composition which contracts with the...
No work in the field of Applied Elasticity has yet been done except with idealized structures; the Harvard experiments will be the first to measure the elastic qualities of actual structures, by means of photographing polarized light sent through models made of transparent celluloid. Stress is shown by varied colorings...