Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rings on a redwood stump. They include a free-for-all fight wherein a redheaded lumberjack named Ox (Alan Hale) demolishes a barroom singlehanded; a wrestle to the death between Bickford and Morris on the edge of a precipice; a train wreck from which hero rescues heroine by a margin narrow enough to make nervous cinemaddicts avert their eyes; a dynamite explosion, an exhibition of fly-casting, a minor log jam and a conflagration. All this action takes place to a running accompaniment of strong talk and more or less continuous gunfire...
Smith had a fat majority of votes, the widest margin of all his six races for the Senate. In the textile towns, millworkers had poured out to vote for Governor Johnston, aroused by President Roosevelt's promise of a better deal for labor. But many mill hands and most propertied people and almost all the cotton growers -sharecroppers as well as landlords- trooped to the polls to vote for Cotton Ed, the farmers' friend...
...spite of England's last-match victory -by the widest margin in its 62-year history-the series was tied, and Australia kept "The Ashes...
...John L. Lewis this was all a very serious matter, for U. A. W. has every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
Writer Johnston called James Roosevelt "by a wide margin the biggest whiskey-insurance man in America." Reply: Roosevelt & Sargent never insured "so much as a bottle of whiskey imported into the United States." But their National Distillers Products Corp. account blankets all that big company's plants & stocks...