Word: buoyant
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...principle of self preservation, and further that "the cry that Ibsen is treading upon dangerous ground, the old cry of pitch and defilement, of forbidden subject, gives expression to that fear of unpleasant truth, that effeminate shrinking from all that is dark and evil which is characteristic of buoyant optimism...
...broader way, to recollect the world and to think of society. But do not misunderstand the meaning of the words "public success." Again it is the University which points out to you the difference between quality and quantity of approval; which tells you to have a calm confidence and buoyant enthusiasm and to do your duty for duty's sake. Remember that some of our noblest spirits are not those whose names are on every tongue, but those who have faithfully gone through life's work and passed into eternal life as "a living stone in that living temple...
...fitted with the Kerns pins. Mr. Blaikie has finished two singles and one double-scull of the kind called "compromise" boats. Of this pattern also are the three boats built by Davy. This kind of boat is just like a shell in appearance but is much broader and more buoyant so as to stand rough water. Although not so light as shells they are not very much less frail and men using them ought to take great care in handling them...
...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...