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Word: doormats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson faces off with the Quakers tonight and the Tigers tomorrow evening. And a win against either of these Ivy titans would end Harvard's long history of being associated with a doormat...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Ivy Titans Next For M. B-Ball | 1/6/1995 | See Source »

...season progressed, the team's fortunes turned around--at least a little bit. The squad demolished traditional Ivy doormat Penn an October 9, 3-0, and then defeated Maine on October...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Men's Soccer Ends Season in Style | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...pummel. A compelling actor, Hayden is not enough of a singer -- he loses his way rhythmically and sounds faint in the score's one modernist number, the anthemic Soliloquy ("my boy Bill"), which ends the first act. Sally Murphy is too bland to evoke sympathy as Billy's doormat of a wife, who can't see she's better off without him until after he's dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: This Carousel Doesn't Go Anywhere | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...head scout for the Bears in 1956. There, he helped Brown to three consecutive winning seasons (5-4-0, 5-4-0 and 6-3-0), no small feat considering that the Bears had gone 2-7-0 in 1955 and have traditionally been an Ivy League doormat...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Harvard Says Goodbye to a Football Legend | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

This season, the Leopards have again gotten off to a solid start. In their first game, they knocked off traditional Patriot League doormat Bucknell (31-14) in customary blowout fashion (the Leopards beat the Bison 49-7 last season). In their second game, they edged out independent and mediocre Buffalo (29-15). But in their last game, they were tagged by Ivy power Princeton...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Resiliency Key for Gridders Against Lafayette | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

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