Word: margin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...season it tied Johns Hopkins, which barely defeated the University team, 5 to 4. Recently Hobart was defeated, 5 to 4, but the game was a practice game in which five substitutes were given try-outs. Cornell was defeated by the Crescent Club of Brooklyn, by the narrow margin of one goal, while the Crescent Club defeated Hobart very easily by the score of 11 to 0. Judging from comparative scores, then, Cornell and Harvard, both stronger than Hobart, are quite evenly matched, the odds being slightly in favor of Harvard...
...University crew, the Freshman crew and the Union Boat Club was held over the 17-8 miles course in the Basin yesterday evening at 5.30 o'clock the University crew winning by about three lengths over the Union Boat Club, which in turn led the Freshmen by a scant margin...
...Presidential straw vote taken at Harvard, when analyzed and tabulated, shows that the University contains, as always in the past 50 years with the exception of 1884, a strong preponderance of Republicans, and it discloses that the tendency is toward radical or progressive candidates. The margin of total Republican candidates over total Democratic candidates is 815, while the margin of so-called progressive candidates, without classifying them according to party...
...government for his own selfish end; in short to develop a government in which the people govern. Winston Churchill first attempted to accomplish this in New Hampshire in 1906, when he fought a losing but satisfactory fight against three other candidates, and was defeated by only a very narrow margin. The fight marked the beginning of the battle for the supremacy of the New Movement in New Hampshire. At first it was misrepresented and subject to ridicule, but after a great struggle the Progressives enacted their entire platform in 1908. They had no leader, however, and the search...
...just as the Yale men tackled, Smith came running around from right end, took the ball from Potter's hand, and dashed around left end behind splendid interference. There was one Yale man to stop him, and he dove through the interference, missing Smith by a good margin. Then in attempting to turn in, Smith slipped, tripped over the prostrate Yale tackler and fell forward having covered about 15 yards. He had a bad fall but was not injured...