Word: tub
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...oddest elements in their development is that infants soon lose many of the skills they had at birth. A newborn baby that is held upright on a table is nearly able to walk while suspended; immersed in a tub of water, it makes a fairly impressive try at swimming. Those abilities deteriorate within a few months. The same process seems to occur with intellectual skills that are not used. Psychologists Janet Werker of Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S., and Richard Tees of the University of British Columbia have shown that babies of six to eight months can distinguish sounds that...
There are of course, complicated explanations of every tub on its own bottom financing of intricate financing, etc that prevent direct comparisons. Yet it seems somewhat perplexing that such high quality concerns do not permeate cost decisions on minor student life issues, such as quality food, feeding graduating seniors during Commencement Week, consistent dorm heating, longer library hours--even carpeting the treacherously squeaky floors in Lamont...
...exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged. Once again, the debaters each wind up convinced that the other is right, but this time they embrace on the middle ground of skeptical belief. Tony gladly joins them: "My new mystique is the more constructive in that...
...summer to try to beat the old Charlie's Angels rep and that all I have been getting is grief. To begin with, this city is like so gross and dirty and just, well, un-California. You can't imagine the trouble I have finding a hot tub, never mind one of those matching jogging outfits with the little slits up the thigh. But I've been hanging in here to prove that I'm more than a pretty face and a gorgeous bod. I signed up to do an off-Broadway play called Extremities...
...Green politically. When the capital paper pointed out that the state was paying for a private bathroom in the Lieutenant Governor's office, the country paper took a picture of the bathroom and published it. "I was ready to see a 30-ft.-sq. bath with sunken marble tub and gold fixtures, similar to the Roman baths," Windsor wrote. "What I found was a tiny room about 5 ft. by 7 ft. with a plain white lavatory and plain white tub, a toilet paper holder that does not work, and that is all. There is not a filling station...