Word: elasticize
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The writer remembers, one evening several years ago, before he entered Harvard, riding from Boston to Cambridge in company with a couple of Harvard students. One of these students who was highly exhilarated periodically, solaced himself by grasping the supporting straps and swinging his feet up against the roof of...
There is another process which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It...
"The two Constitutions, which, by reason of the length of their history, and the influence which they have exercised on statesmen. have most interest for the student of political evolution-those of Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main...
One thing must be borne in mind however, the hall is run in the interest of those who cannot pay more than $4.25; and although by means of the order list the board is made elastic so that members can get $8.00 board if they choose, it has been found...
There is no doubt about it, a man can be more easily tackled in a jersey than in the right sort of a canvass jacket ; and theoretically, no one but quarter-back and fullback, who need the utmost freedom in using their arms, and will not rush so much, have...