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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haven Saturday, Yale's highly-regarded nucleus at the skill positions came through to give the Elis their sixth straight victory without a loss. Senior quarterback John Rogan completed 14 of 22 passes for 166 yards and two touchdowns. Split end Curtis Grieve grabbed seven receptions--including the two touchdowns--to help make Rogan Yale's all-time leading passer, with a career total of 2414 yards...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Bulldogs, Dartmouth Remain Undefeated | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Hideki Yukawa, 74, Japanese physicist who, while working as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1949, became his country's first Nobel prizewinner for his theories on subatomic particles, which predicted the existence of the meson, a bit of energized matter believed to hold the atomic nucleus together; of pneumonia; in Kyoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...strong nucleus of players at the so-called skill positions should make the Bulldogs a cinch to repeat as Ivy League grid champion, not withstanding a possibly potent challenge from Joe Restic's Crimson...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Ivy 'Dogcatchers On Yale's Tail | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Latter group includes goalie Rick McNerndy, striker Kevin Maher--Yale's top scorer last season with 11 points--and honorable mention forward Mark Rozelles (6,2). Those three should provide a strong nucleus into which a crop of slick recruits...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Ivy Soccer: The Nucleus of Parity | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Jefferson's ultimate optimism to believe he could turn the whole world into readers. If human beings were not yet guided by reason, it was because they had not read enough books. So 6,487 volumes from his own library ended up forming the nucleus of the Library of Congress, and he devoted his final energies to founding what would become the University of Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ever Optimistic | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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