Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, PBS had originally planned to televise. The Game. But since neither Harvard nor Yale was in contention for the Ivy crown, PBS decided to switch its telecast to the Cornell-Pennsylvania showdown, which Penn won to earn the league title...
Dartmouth will not be contending for the league crown this year. If the Green players didn't know this before Saturday's game, they know...
Bonny Bess Myerson, beauty from the Bronx, seemed to have everything -- a Miss America crown (1945), big money and political clout. But last April she resigned her $83,000-a-year job as New York City's commissioner of cultural affairs because of what the papers called the "Bess mess." Her romance with Contractor Carl Capasso was a family-wrecking affair, upended when Capasso ran into the tax trouble that got him a four-year prison term. Worse still were charges that in 1983 Myerson gave a $19,000 job to the daughter of State Supreme Court Justice Hortense Gabel...
nationals: the race to determine the national intercollegiate rowing champion. The Crimson heavies last won the national crown in Cincinatti in 1985. That same year, Radcliffe won the national title by an unprecedented 20 seconds...
...Their research] led to the fact that crown-others give you a molecular cage, or molecular house, in which you can create many things by bringing in tiny molecular components and putting them together," Herschbach explained...