Word: float
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where it comes from I do not know. Perhaps old in Cuba, perhaps from nearby Haiti whence cane cutters come annually. Lie awake in the towns of Haiti in the still of night and drum beats of similar rhythm float down to you from the hills...
...first time out on the river with a launch, the Lowell crew met with an unfortunate obstacle in the river yesterday. Partly as a result of the wind, and partly due to the presence of the Browne and Nichols float, the Lowell House shell met with misfortune. The crew returned home in the launch...
...hired a band on credit, held services. Three services brought him $3,500. He then made the proud boast: "The day will come when I will own every foot, every inch, and every pinch of the 6,500-acre site of the City of Zion and then I will float the flag of Zion over every building...
...that the heart, whose nerves had been disconnected, started beating faster. He pinched the veins and arteries connecting the heart and the abdominal viscera he was watching. That is, with nerve or telegraph system cut off, he now dammed the blood stream through which a possible hormone might float. The cat's heart now returned to normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries. The heart again beat faster than normal. Obviously the movements of the cat's lower muscles manufactured something which caused the faster beating: that...
...long time since the Vagabond has allowed himself to slip into one of those moods in which he contents himself with watching the smoke float ceilingwards. Sentimentalism is rather apt to get the upper hand at such moments and it is all too easy for an old fellow to become roseate. So the Vagabond has kept busy with his lectures and his books and left sessions with a pipe to Old Mother Advocate who has been addicted to such whims these many years...