Word: elasticize
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Clothes for Callers. Her real start came when a pregnant customer asked Lane Bryant to make her something "comfortable and yet presentable." Mrs. Bryant made a tea gown in which the bodice was attached by an elastic band to an accordion-plaited skirt. This permitted comfort and style with expansion...
To illustrate the emergence of modern concepts through revised experimental methods, President Conant traced for his audience, by means of lantern slides, the seventeenth-century development of the air pump by Torricelli, von Guericke, and Boyle. The perfection of this simple mechanism resulted in a complete revision of the traditional...
expected to know his place." Pursued Romains (in Town & Country): "He is granted the right to hold an opinion on writing; he may even be allowed a word upon success in general, figuring in a magazine symposium alongside a stockbroker, an advertising man, and a manufacturer of elastic girdles. But...
Ain't She Sweet? This was the year when 16-year-old Jeanne had crushes on the captain of Central's football team and also on her handsome French teacher, the year when the debating society was her great pride and a broken bloomer elastic her great shame...
To fill retiring Representative Clare Boothe Luce's spot on the ticket, the G.O.P. picked handsome John Davis Lodge, 42, onetime cinemactor, grandson of famed Henry Cabot Lodge and brother of Massachusetts' Republican candidate for Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the movies, Connecticut's Lodge was...