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Word: crowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like virtually all had predicted at season's start. Penn. Harvard and Cornell are the front-runners in the quest for the coveted Ancient Eight crown...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Twenty-One Points, Five Points . . . Who's Counting? | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard wrestling team kept its hopes for its first ever Ivy League crown alive this weekend by sweeping past Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

With just one weekend left in the duel meet season, three teams--Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia--all still have a chance to tie for the crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

...crown, Princeton must defeat Columbia and Cornell. For Columbia to tie for the title, they must defeat Princeton, and to win it, they must defeat Princeton, hope that Princeton falls to Columbia and that Harvard loses to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

While a Welsh men's choir sang Rock of Ages and a cheering crowd waved Union Jacks, the civil governor of the province of Cadiz, Mariano Baquedano, last week placed a key in the brass lock of the gate that for 16 years had separated Spain from the British crown colony of Gibraltar. The lock would not budge. Embarrassed, Baquedano handed the key to a Spanish policeman, who also wrestled nervously with the reluctant mechanism. At one minute past the appointed hour of midnight, the lock finally gave way, and the large green gate swung open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gilbraltar Opening Up | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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