Word: uncertaine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taken into account. Time in a race is purely relative, and depends almost as much upon the defeated as upon the victors. In the fall of '74 the Matthews and Holyoke crews had a sharp struggle over the whole course, and up to the last moment it was uncertain which crew would win; it is therefore natural to conclude that the time of the winning crew was as good as it could make. On the other hand, the crew which won this fall was not hard pressed, it had no incentive to do better than it did, though...
With a vague, uncertain light...
...strange, uncertain darkness...
...attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege and liberty until he abuses it, and needs to be disciplined. Nothing is left in an uncertain state. Those students who become sensible in the last part of their course to the failures of the first years would have a chance to make up their deficiencies and leave college with a creditable record behind them. It would promote higher culture, and create more interest in studies, than...
...derivation of this newly-coined word is uncertain; but if from the French galop, its use by our author seems here especially felicitous...