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Word: doormats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Sieja's outfit, which topped Harvard, 15-12, also beat Cornell earlier in the season, 14-13. But last week the Big Red looked impressive against Columbia, losing 15-12 to the team which clobbered Harvard, 21-6. Cornell's only Ivy win was against Yale, the League doormat for the last few years...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Swordsmen Duel Big Red; Racquetmen Meet Bulldogs | 2/25/1967 | See Source »

...League's second division fellows have been feasting on Dartmouth's doormat. Brown's only League win was a whopper, 12-3 over the Green. Last Saturday, Princeton ran up an equally lopsided score, 8-2. Harvard has already defeated both the Bruins and Tigers...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Squad Hopes to Revive Against Weak Dartmouth Tonight | 1/18/1967 | See Source »

Journey was a semiautobiographical story of a doctor, known in the book as Ferdinand Bardamu. "I have spent so many years as a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum," Céline said. The novel was such an asylum. It seemed less a novel than a charade by a troupe of epileptics-convulsed by spasms of lust, rage, fear and disgust but denied the unconsciousness that is the mercy accorded the epileptic. It was clear to most critics that it was a work of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rage Against Life | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...grandstand finish occured when Eliot seemingly doomed as also-rans came from behind to beat Adams House in double overtime last Friday. Forerunner Jeff Jordan booted in the winner, what turned out to be Eliot's biggest goal of the season. The Elephants scraped up 11 men to beat doormat dudley in the first game Monday and then watched the seemingly impossible happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Dumps Kirkland to 2nd | 11/16/1966 | See Source »

...that S.E.C. schools pay more; they offer the usual free ride: room, board, tuition and textbooks, plus $10 per month "laundry money." They just spend more. Alabama, for instance, awards 120 football scholarships a year compared with a maximum of 35 for Notre Dame. Even Vanderbilt, a perennial conference doormat-partly because it is the only S.E.C. university that does not offer majors in either "recreation" or physical education-awards 98. S.E.C. recruiting is also "tremendously polished," according to one man who ought to know: Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers, whose son, Tennessee Halfback Richmond Flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Way up South | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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