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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That due could end up to be the Ivies' finest one-two backfield, and could prove the keys to keeping Harvard in the hunt for at least a piece of its third straight league crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Gone were a slew of athletes many considered the finest in Harvard history and with them, the most Ivy championships ever won by one school in one year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's academic: Harvard was tops in the field | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Jerry Berndt's not the finest coach in the Ivy league right now, then Price Waterhouse switched the envelope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...last Ashford's position as the world's finest sprinter was confirmed in the 100-meter dash. Since she was twelve, and she is 27 now, none of Ashford's records and all of her dreams have been set at the Olympics. But she has been awakened frequently by nightmares: in 1979 she ran away from the best international 100 and 200 fields, celebrated East Germans Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch included, at the World Cup. But by 1980 her fine, fragile legs were popping strings, and they could not be summoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: What It Was About | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...tolerant, less restrictive age, the Sears catalog mixed the art of salesmanship with a little bunkum. "We Aim to Illustrate Honestly and Correctly Every Article," Sears stated around the turn of the century. But that did not stop the company from claiming that its goods were "celebrated," "of the finest quality," "thoroughly high grade" not to mention "cheapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Wish Book | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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