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Word: ancient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...browning the Bruins will be no easy task. Brown (3-2-1, 2-2 Ivy) is the surprise of the Ancient Eight, a team that combines eye-opening offense with head-banging defense to give opposing squads fits...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Gridders Test Big, Bad Bruins Today | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

...prospects for an Ivy League crown look almost as bleak. Cornell (5-0 Ivy) and Columbia (3-0-1)--both '85 victors over the Crimson--are far ahead of the rest of the Ancient Eight pack...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Booters Rally at Rhode Island | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...anything, the Crimson's last three Ancient Eight foes will be better than anything it's seen this year...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: How an 8-0 Victory Became a 53-0 Slaughter | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

Penn, which hasn't lost an Ivy game since a 28-0 drubbing at the hands of Harvard in 1983, is on target to become the second team in Ancient Eight history to win four straight Ivy crowns...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: How an 8-0 Victory Became a 53-0 Slaughter | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they remain recognizable members of that unending troupe of ragpickers and pensioners now huddled under the generic label Homeless. Bradbury's sympathies are with them, and his hero is soon dwarfed by the ancient archetypes who save the story by running away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dwarfed By Ancient Archetypes Death Is a Lonely Business | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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