Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game to help mount a 6-3 halftime lead from which Harvard (3-6, 1-3) could not recover. With its win the Tigers dashed Harvard's hopes for an Ivy title, as even winning out would not be enough to give the Crimson a chance at the Ancient Eight crown...
Although the Crimson no longer has a chance of claiming the Ancient Eight crown this season, its strong performance against a top-notch opponent showed that it has the talent to compete on a high level. Now, as the second half of the season heats up, Harvard must prove that it can stay at that level...
Saturday's matchup against the Tigers--who were undefeated in Ivy play--promised to be an all-out battle between the two tennis powers of the Ivy League, with the winner taking the inside track to the Ancient Eight Championship...
...doubt and blind belief. Gingerly, fastidiously, overseen by Giovanni Cardinal Saldarini and a German textile conservation expert, it will be unspooled from around its wooden cylinder. After a top cloth has been pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case's air will be drawn out and replaced with argon, an inert gas. Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave...
...book touches on such points as Roman graffiti, the readouts of a machine called the VP-8 Image Analyzer, grisaille (monochrome gray) painting and the feeding habits of the ibis. He discusses the musculature of the brow and the existence of the twill-and-herringbone weave in ancient Palestinian linen, and in a footnote he downplays the possibility that the image on the shroud is that of a leader of the Knights Templar who was crucified before being executed. But he also keeps an eye on the basics. What does he feel he can say unequivocally about the shroud? "Based...