Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booters realize that today's is a must game if they are to boost them-selves above the current four-way tie with Penn, Brown, and Cornell to remain in contention for the Ivy League crown...
Harvard Coach Bruce Munro said that team had ever won the Ivy soccer crown with two losses in 13 years. The Crimson's two ties put them in a precarious position for their future games...
Harvard's undefeated football machine, doing almost everything right for the first time this season, stomped a careless Dartmouth squad into the Soldiers Field turf, 22-7, last Saturday, and established itself as a definite contender for the Ivy League crown...
What Exley (the character) cannot come to terms with is his inability to own the streets paved with gold, his failure to capture the imagination of the crowd, his realization that he was never even meant to be a contender for the crown. He is, in effect, an ordinary man forced to stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most...
...work has always been a way of life. Growing up in Old Town, Chicago's tough ethnic crucible, Ron learned the Protestant virtues from his sea-captain father, an immigrant from Denmark; he learned to cram pennies into jars and projects into leisure time. By driving his Royal Crown Cola truck long hours, sometimes from 7 in the morning to as late as 10 at night, Ron earns $17,700 a year in wages and commissions and has bought his family the $27,000, two-story house that they share with his father and stepmother on the city...