Word: margin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given it, is that speculators, by making an active market, make it safe for banks to lend on goods that are being carried over to a later season--make bank loans "liquid." The speculator also, by putting up a "margin," protects the banks from risk in financing such operations...
Every essay offered should be neatly and legibly written or typewritten upon letter paper of good quality, of the quarto size, with a margin not less than one inch at the top, at the bottom, and on each side, so that it may be bound up without injury to the writing. The title page of each manuscript should bear an assumed name, and the writer should give in with his manuscript a sealed envelope containing his real name and superscribed with his assumed name...
...third and deciding game of the Princeton hockey series will be played tonight when the University and Tiger sevens clash in the Arena at 8.15. Each team has won a game from the other by the narrow margin of one goal and in both of these contests there was little to choose between the opposing aggregations...
...strong as the University. The Tigers have developed the same type of offensive hockey that the Crimson plays, depending on team-work rather than individual playing to score. Harvard has developed this game farther than her opponents at this point in the season, however, and also has a margin of superiority in the defensive work both of the backs and the forwards. Especially conspicuous in the forward line defence work are Baker and Percy, who are also fast men on the offence. Townsend and Rice are valuable wing men, the latter being the most accurate shot on the team...
...intercollegiate chess championship again went to Columbia when the New York players survived with a comfortable margin the third and final round of the intercollegiate chess tournament at the Princeton Club, New York, on December 23. Columbia finished with eight points to her credit, Yale following in second place with six and one-half. The grand totals of the University and Princeton were five and one-half and four points respectively. The surprise of the tournament came in the last round when Yale, after having tied both the previous matches against Princeton and the University, defeated the Columbia team...