Word: margin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Timothy W. Good was re-elected mayor of Cambridge yesterday over Mr. Wendell D. Rockwood, the candidate of the Citizens' Municipal Party, by the narrow margin of 240 votes. This was the closest vote in many years, Mr. Good winning last year by a 3,000 majority. The Democrats, however, elected only 9 of the 22 councilmen. The aldermen were divided...
Last year Cornell defeated the University by a narrow margin, and Harvard faces an equally strong team tonight. The records of the Cornell relay quartet have been especially good, and through their performance in this department the Ithacans hope to carry off the final honors...
This being the case, a very small margin may decide the outcome. While it can hardly be demonstrated in any given case that vociferous cheering has won victory, yet there have undoubtedly been numerous contests in which the enthusiasm of the spectators has swung the tide. Robustly audible support from the stands shows a team that it is not fighting altogether alone, nor altogether for itself--makes its best a little better. Behind the players is something more powerful than they,--the University...
...university team has held only one match this fall, defeating St. Mark's by a decisive margin, while Yale lost her only shoot, with Princeton...
...representing Cornell this fall easily stands out as the most likely candidate for the title. The Cornell team has shown conclusively that it has no equal in the country at present and it is conceded by its rivals that it is principally a question of the size of the margin by which the team will be victorious. Windnagle, Hoffmire, Potter, and Speiden are all men of remarkable ability and each has a good chance of being first man home...