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Word: crowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Camabs wrapped up their biggest lvy weekend of the year in the sweetest way imaginable--a--two-game sweep that left them closer than ever to capturing their first-ever league crown...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Peaking Icemen Nose Brown, 3-2; Crimson, Bruins Share League Lead | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...Cantabs, who are in second place with a 3-2 league record, have never captured an Ivy crown...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Triumph, 4-0 | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...only two Ivy teams never to win a men's basketball crown, the Crimson is, at least, a safe bet to garner an NIT postseason bid, if not an NCAA berth...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, Michael W. Hirschorn, and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: The Spring Ahead: II | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, if the women's ice hockey team can hang on to its league-leading position, it'll snatch its first Ivy crown...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, Michael W. Hirschorn, and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: The Spring Ahead: II | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

Like the Royal Navy and India, the pound had always been a jewel in the British imperial crown. But last week the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had to rush to rescue the once proud pound from sinking below $1 in value. The pound has always been something of an anomaly in international currency markets. While it takes several deutsche marks or French francs, and hundreds of Japanese yen, to equal one U.S. dollar, the British pound is the only major Western currency worth more than a dollar. In 1949 a pound was worth $4.03, and as recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pound Watching: Thatcher to the rescue | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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