Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these inorganic means is almost constantly at work, Organic means are of those of insects, fishes, lower mammalia and man. The buoyancy of seeds differs greatly, and to the greater lightness of some seeds in a great measure is due their greater chances for dissemination; for if they are buoyant they will often be carried a great ways on the surface of the water, and take root in a soil far distant from the place of the original plant from which the ysprung...
Foot-ball stock can be said to be neither buoyant nor depressed. A feeling of uncertainty exists quite unusual, and, for the most part, inexplicable. The method of estimating the relative merits of elevens by the comparative scores, has this year been unreliable from the fact that Yale in her inter-collegiate contests has played with teams materially weakened, and represented by a large number of substitutes. Besides, the fickleness of her play, as observed by able foot-ball critics, has been her distinguishing characteristic. In the game with Pennsylvania, Saturday, the score of which...
...first game of the series was played, as usual, at New Haven, and the '81 nine left Cambridge with that buoyant confidence characteristic of all freshman teams. The result of the game was 8 to 1 in favor of Yale, - base hits, Harvard 3, Yale 12. The account of the game in the Crimson said: "The Harvard nine found it impossible to bat Lamb's pitching, which was remarkably fine, while the Yale men batted Cruger with comparative ease." The Yale freshmen were jubilant, in the Yale sense of the word. After their nine had again demolished the Harvard freshmen...