Word: bumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: Desty's Federal Constitution, pp 279-288, 326-333; Bump's Notes of Constitutional Decisions, pp 369-381; Pomeroy's Constitutional Law, pp 174-183; E. C. Walthell, The Race Problem in the South, in Cong. Record...
...Collady-A fast overhand bowler with considerable bump, and a slow but sure run-getter. A Belmont...
...recently gave to the world the Latin Address despatched to Harvard by some Cambridge Undergrad. It has been received with unparalleled enthusiasm in America, and the following strictly classical reply was agreed to at a recent "Bump Supper," on the other side of the Atlantic. Its elegant Latinity, like that of its predecessor, speaks for itself...
Here is a specimen of western base-ball reporting as shown in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Umpire Young seems to be a sublime ignoramus, who adds bull-headed obstinancy to the most prodigious bump of vanity that mortal ever possessed...
...Spirit of the Times has a certain Hibernian touch to it of "see a head and hit it," which is truly unique, and its bump of aggressiveness has once more led it into a ridiculous position. After administering a sound drubbing, a very sound drubbing indeed, to the University of Pennsylvania, on account of its unfortunate challenge, the writer of the article was seemingly unable to close without making a few flings at Harvard and Yale. He blandly states: "If all the bosh that has been written about the aquatic deeds and words of Harvard and Yale could be collected...