Word: elasticize
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This unique research will start on the elastic and other properties of rocks. For example, how do rocks under great pressure conduct heat? This is something fundamental in the study of earth transformations. To prosecute the study Professor Bridgman has some remarkably powerful little machines. They consist essentially of thick...
Since any mechanical vibration is sharply resonant, and better than the best electric circuits which can be built Professor Pierce has also been at work on magnetostriction rods, usually an alloy of nickel and steel, used, experimentally, as a source of air waves, similar to sound waves, but above audible...
An elastic currency was one of the Federal Reserve's original purposes. Each of the twelve district banks was authorized to print its own paper money which became the joint obligation of the Federal Reserve bank and of the U. S. Treasury to pay gold on demand. Each bank of...
In his annual report President Lowell points out the failure of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to attract men of high calibre in numbers at all comparable to the numbers doing graduate work in those of the Law, Medicine, or Business Administration. He declares the majority in the...
"The demand for wheat for food in most countries is comparatively inelastic. In order to tap extensively the strata of elastic demand-for food in China, for example, for feed in many countries, and for industrial uses-prices cruelly low to wheat producers are necessary. Temporarily this may be inevitable...