City SW of Syracuse

Usage examples of elmira.

Em clearly recalled his connection with Alfred but had totally forgotten lhat his mother, Elmira, had been dead some eight years.

Alfred but had totally forgotten that his mother, Elmira, had been dead some eight years.

Ullmer glanced through the tangle of curly hair on his forearm at his old windup Breitling, the only kind of decoration he would allow his people in the secluded hangars and workshops near Elmira, New York, which NSA people called the Snake Pit.

That night David introduced me to the people in Elmira and I gave my testimony.

Davie wanted me to remain in Elmira while he wrote the Bible school which I later found out was in La Puente, California, outside Los Angeles.

Delgado came by the apartment and asked him to go with you to meet me in Elmira the next day.

I prayed for him all that next summer and finally made a trip up to Elmira just to see him.

An illustration of what can be done in this direction is furnished by the Elmira Reformatory, where the experiment is being made with most encouraging results, which, of course, would be still better if the indeterminate sentence were brought to its aid.

I will only add that the methods at Elmira have passed far beyond the experimental stage in this matter.

The practical application of these principles can be studied in the Elmira Reformatory of New York, the only prison for felons where the proposed system is carried out with the needed disciplinary severity.

In studying Elmira, however, it must be borne in mind that the best effects cannot be obtained there, owing to the lack of the indeterminate sentence.

The whole theory of the Elmira system is to keep men long enough under a strict discipline to change their habits.

The river and the trolley run side by side the whole charming way, and, as you near Elmira, you come upon latticed barns that waft you the fragrance of drying tobacco-leaves, suspended longitudinally for the wind to play through.

Not that we have anything against Elmira, though possibly its embattled reformatory, frowning from the hillside, contributed its gloomy associations to our spirits.

The discussion was not long, and it was brought to a cheerful, demoralized end by the approach of the trolley, into which, regardless of right or wrong, we climbed with alacrity, not to alight till not only Elmira was left behind, but more weary suburbs, too, on the other side.