Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson 200 freestyle relay took the crown by winning in an NCAA Consideration Standard time...
WASHINGTON: Its new status as the jewel in China's crown may be keeping droves of tourists away, but Hong Kong still reigns supreme as the freest economy in the world, according to an annual survey by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal...
...defense, however, refused to be overshadowed, yielding just 46 rushing yards in the course of the contest. Harvard's last win by a margin of more than 38 points had occurred in 1987, en route to the Crimson's last winning season and the Ivy crown...
DIED. EDDIE ARCARO, 81, masterly jockey whose style, spirit and heritage made him the Joe DiMaggio of his sport; in Miami. Only Arcaro has ridden two Triple Crown winners--Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...
Paper is something of an ostentation these days. All the information we need jumps off a screen and is abstracted back into electrons when we look away. "Books" are the gilded volumes that crown the achievements of the canonized. "Books" are placed strategically on a conspicuous shelf to bestow a semblance of weathered intellectualism. "Books" gather dust...