Word: elasticize
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Japanese Proposal. Chief Delegate Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito made a very elastic and tentative proposal. His apparent purpose was to keep in the background until Britain and the U. S. showed signs of agreement. His keynote was that the present relative naval strengths of the U. S., Britain and Japan...
Since all major business of the Conference will be transacted in innumerable sub-committee rooms, the huge public session of last week wore on amid intentionally bromidic set speeches. Even so, U. S. Chief Delegate Henry M. Robinson managed to fall afoul of bland Sir Max Muspratt, President of the...
ANTHOLOGIES, notably elastic things, are usually indicative of the anthologist's turn of mind; every reader hopes that somewhere in a collection of verses, stories, plays--whatever be the subjects--he will discover the compiler's preference--some certain favorite, some especial fancy. But such an ambition is in vain...
Suicide ? It seemed so, but who could imagine a man like Raoul taking his own life. . . . Murder? That seemed more likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was...
"For example, if two elastic bodies collide at sufficiently high velocities, the laws of elasticity fail completely and the resulting motion is indeterminate. Recent researches enable us to state that such bodies may oscillate in a stable way near to a periodic state."