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Word: spans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down 17-0 early in the third quarter, Harvard (1-0) scored on seven consecutive possessions, with six of those coming within a 15-minute span...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Columbia Warns Coach About Comments | 9/24/1985 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: The Crimson's first six touchdowns Saturday came in a span of 15:21...In its last three games against Columbia, Harvard has averaged 42 points...Harvard is now 95-15-2 in season openers...Columbia's non-winning streak is now at 15...Its 12 straight losses are a school record...It had been two seasons--since the Princeton game in 1983--that a Columbia team last held a two-touchdown lead over anyone...White needs 577 yards passing to become the Crimson's fifth leading passer of all time...Lamont Greer, Brian O'Neil...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Columbia Warns Coach About Comments | 9/24/1985 | See Source »

...straight wins leave the Crimson two shy of the series record... The Lions last defeated the Crimson, 21-19, in 1978... The winner of the past 20 Harvard-Columbia games has scored at least 20 points... The loser has scored 20 points just three times in that span... Harvard is looking for its sixth straight winning season. If it's successful, it would mark the most winning seasons in a row since a 10-year string from 1959-68... If the1

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: For Openers, It's Harvard vs. Columbia | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball ("It's straight poker, but deuces are wild for white men"). He even has the wit and gumption to prevent his new span from being captured by convergent, divergent armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up-Country Without a Paddle Volunteers | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...dreary and disheartening, a place where respectable people worked, bums lived and almost nobody strolled. Given that lifelessness, the city's attempt to create a heroic modern monument to itself in 1965, Eero Saarinen's arch beside the Mississippi, came to seem like self-mockery: a pure, gorgeous steel span rising from a dying downtown and a forgotten riverfront, a giant logo erected as a wishful substitute for authentic urban reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: New Gilded Age Grandeur | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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