Word: elasticize
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"Earthquakes in New England are minor affairs, resulting from isostatic adjustment, or elastic recovery, of the land which was greatly depressed during the Great Ice Age 10,000 years ago. That the land was depressed is an established fact, for old sea-beaches have been located along the St. Lawrence...
If society ever recovers from its fetish of a college education, the secondary schools may be relieved of some of the burden of cramming for college boards and may be able to evolve a broader and more elastic system of education whereby students of mediocre ability can be given a...
In Paris last week the somewhat crushing replies of Germany, Italy and Britain merely caused elastic M. Briand to bounce with animation, like the big and roly-poly diplomatic rubber ball that he is. Professing to be "greatly encouraged" that all the Powers except Britain profess "eagerness" to continue discussion...
The Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The...
Between the college and the preparatory school, modern educational methods have driven a wedge that has disrupted the continuity of the normal intellectual development of the student. The varying specific needs of individual secondary schools and colleges have necessitated the establishment of standardized means of judging entrants. Unfortunately this blanket...