Word: tubbed
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...believes that every tub should be on itsown bottom," says Business School alumnus WarrenAlpert, who last year pledged $20 million to theMedical School. "But that isn't what Rudenstinebelieves. Rudenstine believes that [resources]ought to be spread around...
...give the presents back. They are presumably offered to show affection and not to buy it. (If they are truly admirers, they would not be trying to buy her affections.) Let her enjoy her gifts, but ask her to share; as a confidante, you deserve at least half the tub...
...front of the gaudy, gilt Buddhist temple we stopped, and approached a crowd of people, children mostly, who were squatting around a circular, white, plastic tub. Many small hands swirled in the tub's water. Each hand held a round, metal loop that had white filter paper stretched across its diameter. Hand and metal-paper extension followed swarms of multi-sized goldfish darting around the tub. Each hand and its loop was eager to win a fish by successfully scooping it out of the tub with the water-weakened paper net. Wise hands targeted the large schools of pinky-sized...
...attention was diverted when I noticed a more ambitious hand maneuver its paper loop under the largest goldfish in the tub, and lift it swiftly out of the water. I watched the goldfish as it lay tenuously in an iridescent arc, its tail and head hanging over the sides of the fragile circle. In a second it began to squirm and twitch. Tail and head arched spastically upward to meet the other, reversing the direction of its parabolic arc. The goldfish's contorted torso drilled through the water-weakened paper, slipped bodily through the loop in a fluorescent shimmer...
...Zeckhauser defended Scott as anadministrator who recognized the importance ofHarvard's tried and true philosophy of"every-tub-on-its-own-bottom...