Word: elasticize
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¶ "Society must be cast in the male mold. It must be dominated and inspired by man. It will thus become more elastic, more dynamic, more alive, healthier. If man had run society the last few years it would not have permitted . . . women to pattern their appearance on the rattlesnake...
3. However well you make your plans, you are liable to be blocked unexpectedly at some point. The longer the period over which you extend your reading, the more elastic your plans can be and the less they will be disturbed by occasional failure.
Swiftly, now, the elastic League machinery resumes its normal course. The Commission votes to defer additional debate on the Soviet proposal until it meets again, in March. Litvinov has to be content with this, and seems not unhappy amid such pleasant surroundings. He is receiving scores of congratulatory messages. One...
Presbyotia. People speak just about as fast as they hear?some 20 changes a second, said Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, editor of Science. To be heard by an audience or by people hard of hearing, one must speak distinctly and slowly, not loudly. A stump speaker's shouting is only...
Rubber, like other commodities, enjoys an elastic market. But potent manufacturers who buy raw rubber (like Harvey Samuel Firestone and Henry Ford) would rather raise it than stretch for it. In 1926, Mr. Firestone bought 1,000,000 acres in Liberian jungleland from which, in nine years, he will get...