Word: elasticize
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Oh, Promise Me. Motorists with A-cards can expect to get new tires next February or March. So John L. Collyer predicted last week, as he resigned as WPB's rubber boss to resume the presidency of B. F. Goodrich Co. Like all rubber promises, this one was elastic...
"Byrnes's reputation is that of a skillful compromiser, able to compel agreement by patience, charm of manner and an elastic mind. He has the realism-and sometimes the cynicism-of the profes sional politician. All of the evidence is that he is essentially conservative, a gradualist in all...
Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America, which paid more than $10 million in 1943 excess-profits taxes, is one of the nation's lustiest, most publicized war babies. In eye-stopping two-color ads, the company has dramatized its principal product, a patented, self-locking nut, has regularly claimed...
¶ A thin, elastic film which can be used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful. When the wound has healed, the plastic dries...
¶Colombia's Poet-Novelist José Eustasio Rivera on the jungle: "No cooing nightingales here, no Versaillian gardens or sentimental vistas! Instead the croaking of dropsical frogs ... the aphrodisiac parasite that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree...