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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 »

...count on it at Harvard with bigtime Digger Phelps-disciple Francis X. "Frank" McLaughlin moving into his second year. Harvard upset Penn at the dungeon-like IAB last year, signaling the shape of things to come. By the time the class of '82 has graduated--assuming McLaughlin stays--former doormat Harvard will have joined Penn and Princeton as Ivy powers, and maybe as a national power...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...manual specifies, for example, that an apartment or house to be rented or bought must be "'modest, clean, neat and completely furnished. It must appear from the outside as a decent house−curtains, an entrance light, a doormat and a nameplate." It should be situated on a street where it is "easy for a militant to keep watch over and to observe any police surveillance: that is, if possible, it should not be near bars, public buildings, shops, institutes, warehouses, etc." Purchases of food and other necessities should be made far away from the neighborhood of the hideout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: How to Be a Terrorist | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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