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Word: ancient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After finishing in the Ancient Eight cellar for the first time in a decade, Harvard loses just one significant player (guard Pat Smith) from last year's unit but does not figure to improve dramatically...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Caution: Rebuilding in Progress at Briggs | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...winning the Ivy League in 1986-'87 is far from Roby's mind--especially considering that his squad has been picked by most to finish last in the Ancient Eight for the second straight year (something that hasn't happened to Harvard since...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Caution: Rebuilding in Progress at Briggs | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Padihershef, the resident Egyptian mummy at MGH since 1823, has spent the last few years as a celebrity guest at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield as part of an exhibit celebrating the common man in ancient Egypt...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Restored Mummy Goes Home to Mass General | 12/2/1986 | See Source »

...heaving stratification of the limestone, its caverns and holes, and the turbulent profile of Mount Gaussier to the west do look exactly like that, just as the writhing strokes of his brush on the olive trunks are a direct pictorial equivalent to the real arabesques of ancient bark and wood. One might not often see a real cloud like Van Gogh's -- that strange fetal shape extruded into the blue sky -- but it powerfully conveys the strength of the wind over the plains beyond Les Baux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Lloyd argued that the liberal feminist view of equality hails back to the ideas of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who believed "the world was gender neutral and that men should extend ideals to actually include women...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Women's Scholar Discusses Equality And The Feminine | 11/25/1986 | See Source »

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