Word: elasticize
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Most workmen's compensation claims are settled administratively, and limited by fairly standard formulas. But under federal law, injured railroad workers and merchant seamen have the more elastic remedy of jury trials, and each year several such lawsuits find their way to the Supreme Court. The results are often...
Nondefinition. Redefinition, when and if it is done, will have to come out of what some puzzled outsiders regard as nondefinition. Anglicans proudly regard their faith as a middle way between the rigidities of Rome and the Reformation, a unique and vital bridge between Protestantism and historical Catholicism. But Lutheran...
But elastic as the limits may be, there are still limits. Last week two publishers accused of violating them were in trouble with the law.
The lady's plight, presumably the result of failing elastic or flailing hands, is a familiar one to harried J.N.R. officials. Their lost-and-found warehouses bulge with an inventory that would do a department store proud: 1,800,000 items, including 25,000 wristwatches, 310,000 umbrellas, 180...
Elastic Medium. Argentine-born Mauricio Lasansky, 48, who has created a U.S. printmaking capital at the department of graphic arts of the State University of Iowa, often combines acid etching, drypoint and engraving in a single work to express the somber subjects that are his specialty. Says Lasansky: "The print...