Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when you take the bus deep into Boston, to the bus station, to Dudley Station, when you head off for the summer to non-institutional life. Though euphemisms like "academic community" and "a community of learned men and women" cloak it. Harvard is, at the bottom line, an institution. "We grind you out like link-sausages," the professor says in Marathon Man. Look around you. Harvard is a singularly dangerous institution, at that...
...times, Harvard's financial policy of "each tub on its own bottom" seems capricious at best. The Peabody Museum is one of the country's finest storehouses of archaeological and ethnological materials. To see its treasures go to waste because of stubbornly enforced University directives--what one administrator called "financial disregard" for the Peabody in favor of the Fogg Museum--is clearly misguided...
Both the men's and women's ski teams regularly finish in the bottom three of the ten Division I schools in the east. Now that may sound unimpressive, but consider the fact that Vermont, Dartmouth, Williams, Middlebury and New Hampshire, schools for whom skiing is as big as football is at Ohio State, are also in Division I. UVM recruiters regularly journey to lure so-called "squareheads" to their squads...
...preferential voting, students rank their choice of candidates, and votes for candidates at the top of the list receive more weight than votes for candidates at the bottom, Stokes said...
...takeoff, the Ayatullah climbed the spiral staircase to the jumbo jet's lounge section, removed his turban and sandals, curled up on several Air France blankets and slept for 2½ hours," reported van Voorst. "His personal security guard, suffering from a toothache and numb from aspirins, sat at the bottom of the steps. At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey, the Ayatullah said prayers, then was served an omelet for breakfast. When the captain announced that the plane had flown into Iranian airspace and would land in Tehran in half an hour, the Ayatullah craned his neck to look down...