Word: floater
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...Unger to snap a seven point Big Green run. Possibly inspired, possibly emboldened, Lin immediately took charge. After collecting the next rebound, Lin took the rock coast to coast, drove hard to the basket through heavy traffic, drew the foul, and still maintained enough composure to lay in a floater from six feet out. Though he missed the ensuing free throw, Lin kept his cool, snagging the carom and quickly dropping in another smooth layup to pull the Crimson even with Dartmouth at 45-45. Two minutes later, following a Dartmouth free throw and a three by Pattman, Lin once...
Perhaps inspired, perhaps emboldened, Lin took charge, collecting a rebound and taking it coast to coast. Lin showed impressive athleticism, driving hard to the basket through heavy traffic with his right hand, but maintaining enough composure to lay in a floater from six feet out while drawing a foul...
...addition to the full menu of pub grub, the Cambridge Queen’s Head will feature three sizes of appetizers: the “floater,” for one; the “blocking group,” for six to eight; and the pièce de résistance, the “endowment,” a giant H-shaped platter featuring every appetizer on the menu...
...wake of housing randomization, blocking has occupied a major slice of the scramble of freshmen year at Harvard. Some tight cliques form blocking groups in September, while other groups are a mish-mash of frightened freshmen who come together at the last moment in order to avoid lonely floater-status...
...that important. I didn’t have strong feelings about who I lived with, so I didn’t want another thing to think about,” Osborne wrote in an e-mail. Osborne ended up in Kirkland House, where he now rooms with two other floaters, Daniel Payan ’08 and Philip K. Hafferty ’08. Payan, however, was an unwitting floater. His intended roommate filled out the housing form under his own name, thinking Payan could add his name afterward. “Floating was a mistake, but it worked...