Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this isn't your father's university. It's the new generation of Harvard. Our football teams today are not exactly the equal of the Rose-Bowl-winning squad of 75 years ago. Once a power in college football, the Ivy League has been losing ground ever since its heyday in the late 1800s. The rise in bigtime college athletics elsewhere accelerated Harvard's decline, which today's Division I-AA status attests...
...fans know that Harvard in its heyday was a veritable football powerhouse, winning national championships in 1890, 1910, 1912 and 1913. Harvard gridders were Rose Bowl champions...
...fallacy to assume that musical comedies are simply plays in which, for some unaccountable reason, some of the words are sung instead of spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern...
...heyday--from the 1880s to the early 1910s--Memorial Hall was home to boxing matches, gambling and social drinking. Students of those lays affectionately referred...
Ridden out of Washington two years ago as a has-been who many believed had seen his political heyday pass, Quayle is now hoping--many feel realistically--to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee...