It is, of course, just as easy to understand that this superiority would not exist when the ball was struck with a golf club, for then the question of resiliency comes into the matter.
We want to know how he reacts to what, how fast he recuperates, how much physical punishment his body can take, how far his mental resiliency will extend.
Of course such a test takes no account of the resiliency of the ball; but then, as every player knows, there is a clear difference between good resiliency and good flying properties.
It's all very well for you boys," he said; "you have youth and resiliency on your side.
He even began to make vague plans for trying again, and when, after a long dinner, they pushed back their chairs and rose from the table, there was a youthful resiliency in the voice with which he challenged Powers to a game of piquet.
The explanation of this is simple, for there can be no doubt that the loss of resiliencyin the diseased cartilage is only another aid to undue pressure and concussion.
That he experienced them is without doubt, but they were revealed in the intensity of action and the quick resiliency of renewed effort.
One pound of this metal will impart more resiliency to steel than three or four pounds of tungsten.
Silence is economy and resiliency is superior to resistance.
To make a ball having exactly the weight, color and resiliencyto which billiard players have become accustomed seemed an impossibility.
There was something gone from Lilly, these months, as if a line ofresiliency within her had snapped like a rubber band.
Have it your own way," she said, limp with a sudden sense of futility and as if all the reflex resiliency had oozed out of her.
Trickles of sand from bullet holes sprinkled their shoulders and they had enough resiliency of spirit to grin when a stream of sand from a bag torn by a shell burst ran down the back of Pilzer's neck.
He hadn't the ability or the resiliency of mind for his task, as I hope you have, colonel.
The course of study is flexible, and because of its resiliency it adapts itself easily and gracefully to the native dispositions and the aptitudes of the various pupils.
It permeates the perplexities of the day, gives resiliency to his spirit, and encourages and reënforces all the noble impulses that come into his consciousness.
A slight degree of flexion here makes for a good clearance of the string and adds resiliency to the shot.
This latter was padded thickly with rubber, so that some resiliency was permitted.
Pioneering appeals, in some degree, to us all; and in Frenchmen were such resiliency of spirit, such abandon to adventure, as that they stand as typical explorers.
It does not in the least explain the system any more than the discovery of the resiliency of the spring of the watch explains the watch itself.
Demonstrate the increased resiliencyof springs designed for cotton mattresses and why inner-spring models need a fuller base.
Certainly many use pillows too old to have retained their resiliency and complete comfort.
The general fibers of wool or cotton, considered as an index of quality; for example, a single fiber judged by itself as to length, thickness, and resiliency denotes the quality of the batch.
Box springs originally were designed to give much resiliency so that they could be used with solid-filled mattresses of hair or cotton.
A mattress with the proper resiliency will give readily when pressure is applied and spring back to its original shape when this pressure is removed.
After years of constant use they lose resiliency and can no longer properly support the neck muscles.
Kapok has great resiliency and resistance to water.
It is almost impossible to sell a good mattress properly without discussing springs because the resiliency of the one depends considerably upon that of the other.
