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Word: doormats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton handed Dartmouth its first shutout loss in Hanover since 1947, a 16-0 embarrassment. Though everyone said Princeton would be the Ivy doormat, the Tigers wiped their feet on Dartmouth...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Great Expectations | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Enter Princeton, the football objective correlative of New Jersey and 1978 Ivy doormat. The Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., and shut out Dartmouth, 16-0 before an eager-to-leave crowd...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tigers, Elis Winners in Ivy Openers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Flight delays kept Crimson coach Joe Bernal from ever reaching Philadelphia in time for Saturday's dual swim meet against Pennsylvania; but his coaching mastery was hardly required as the Crimson drowned perennial Ivy doormat Penn, 70-41, running its season dual meet record...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Swimmers Win Big Harvard Trounces Penn, 70-41 | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson travels north to Philadelphia for a meet with perennial Ivy doormat Pennsylvania this afternoon in what should be yet another one-sided warm-up for the big one--the Eastern championships here in Cambridge on March...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Swimmers Dominate Hopkins, Raise Record to 11-0 With 64-47 Victory | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...comes The Flounder, a long, magnificent passage of wind, a pungent humanizing of the past and present in which the Weltgeist (world spirit) is a talking fish, a warty, cunning creature with a crooked mouth and two freakish eyes on one side of its doormat body. This turbot, as it is called on the Continent, is also a male chauvinist who echoes one of the two main themes of the book: the eternal power struggle between men and women. The other persistent melody, the importance of cooking and nutrition in history, is in the tasty flesh of the flounder itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turbot de Force | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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