Word: elasticize
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Promoter Fox and associates underwrote Dr. Ringer and set him up in an elaborate, air-conditioned laboratory on Manhattan's East Side to perfect a marketable version of his match. While experimenting, Dr. Ringer dissolved some vinyl-resin plastic in acetone. In working with the solution, he noticed it...
For two decades, U.S. women had been striving for what fashion writers called the "American Look." This called for a certain litheness, a casual jauntiness, a healthy complexion, broad shoulders and, above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves...
There will be one door (a thick plate) and two windows, one of them set in the center of the door. Instead of glass, or the quartz used by William Beebe in his record-holding (3,028 ft.) bathysphere, the windows will be Plexiglas cones with the narrow ends pointing...
*The Roman Catholic Church, in theory, never recognizes divorce at all. In practice, however, under certain (and somewhat elastic) circumstances, it "annuls" a previous marriage.
Ralph, according to his bureau chief, John Stanton, is a warm, round, emotional, faintly picaresque Mexican who somehow "manages to remind you vaguely of Queen Victoria." His seemingly inexhaustible, elastic and highly valuable know-how is the result of all that Ralph has been and is. His familiarity with Mexican...