Word: elasticize
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Howe was testing a new air-cushion landing gear (ACLG) developed by Textron's Bell Aerosystems Co. of Buffalo. Based on the British Hovercraft principle (TIME, June 2) and conceived by Bell's T. Desmond Earl and Wilfred J. Eggington, the system employs an elastic bag made of...
Not a bad idea for a funny film-ten years ago. Unfortunately. The Jokers are by now low cards in a worn-out deck. The subject of countless scenarios from The Lavender Hill Mob to How to Steal a Million, the hoary story of the happy heist is as much...
If UHS psychiatrists are going to cater to all of Harvard, they will have to learn to be more open minded; they will have to make their definition of sickness a little more elastic. They will, in effect, have to become a little more hip
In giving reasons for "firing" a student, the old Administrative Board used to throw students out for what was termed "ungentlemanly conduct." Recently, however, ungentlemanly conduct (commonly known as the elastic clause) has been replaced by "irresponsible behavior," no less all-inclusive, but somehow less archaic.
In contrast with the recent practice of amputating above the knee, the Burgess team operated as far below the joint as possible, while still avoiding infected bone. After dressing the sutured stump to stanch bleeding, the surgeons used an elastic bandage soaked with plaster of paris to mold a cast...