Word: elasticize
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"Probably a dollar has never been as elastic as it will prove in this library war fund," said Harold Braddock, director for the Library War Council. "Not only will each dollar do its full share toward the construction of the library and branch buildings, the installation of tables and chairs...
"I want them to be numerous," he concluded, "because I know all of them will gain by contact with your energy and practical sense, your firm ideals, pure morals, and elastic liberty."
The managers of this play have boasted of its possession of a real plot, and we will not argue with them on this point. There is a plot, which is often in evidence, but it has been made elastic enough to introduce all sorts of nonsense so necessary to the...
"When we come to discuss the curriculum of the new School, several points are to be noted. In the first place, an attempt is made to steer between the rigid and fixed curriculum found in some of the American professional schools and the very elastic schemes that are found in...
How, then, can matters be remedied? The administration by its actions admits that the system is over-rigid. A large percentage of students find their original choice distasteful to them. If we can preserve the increased mental power which the present system requires and, at the same time, render it...