Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full shifts a day, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and sewing cot ton garments for export. Last August he added a new factory to weave 1,000,000 yds. of cloth per month, cut 60,000 gar ments a day. His own garment exports to the U.S., 15% of the crown colony's, have risen from $1,000,000 in 1956 to $12 million this year...
...relative obscurity, the varsity soccer team captured its second straight Ivy League crown this season. By far Harvard's most successful squad in intercollegiate competition, the Crimson edged by Yale last Friday to complete a 9-1-3 record, with a 5-1-0 Ivy slate...
Undefeated in three years, the Dunster House tackle football squad led the House intramural league with seven wins, no losses, and one tie. Quarterback Jim Crampton hustled his team to a 14-12 victory over Eliot in a crucial playoff contest to clinch the crown...
...hopes for the Ivy title ended with this defeat. The only team with a shot left at the Crimson is the Yale eleven, which gave up the League lead by bowing to Princeton, 1 to 0. The Elis confront the varsity Friday in the championship showdown. The Ivy crown, an NCAA bid and the honor of victory in the traditional series will ride on the outcome...
...thought after the game that the loss had meant the end of chances for an unopposed Ivy crown. News from Philadelphia, however, indicated later that Penn, playing on its own field with the services of captain John Jerbasi, had tied Yale, 4 to 4. Thus, unless fate intervenes, a Crimson victory in the Yale encounter will still give the varsity the championship by half a game...