Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steps. But Joan Tozzer so impressed the solemn judges with the simplicity and smoothness of her free-skating repertory that they gave her performance almost as many points as Miss Peppe's. When the two-day totals were tallied, Joan Tozzer was awarded the crown by the slim margin of one-tenth of a point...
...French Mathematician Pierre Fermat, laid down in the 17th Century states that there are no solutions to the equation: x n +y n = z n , n being a power greater than the square and x, y and z being whole numbers which are not zero.* Fermat wrote on the margin of a book that he had hit upon a proof of the theorem, but that there was not room enough on the margin to write it out. He died before he wrote it anywhere else that anyone knew of. The theorem became celebrated in the history of mathematics, and dozens...
Captain von Stade was the evening's leading scorer by a large margin, turning in a total of seven goals. Ben Forbes and Gaylord Dillingham, at number 1 and 2 positions respectively, divided the rest of the Crimson goals between them, scoring six apiece...
Perhaps most radical change suggested in the statement is the declaration that "we oppose a method of election whereby a candidate with a slight margin, frequently one or two votes, is declared elected even though he has polled nothing resembling a majority of the votes cast...
Saturday night's defeat at the hands of the surprising Princeton hoopmen by a 37-20 margin definitely wiped out the Crimson quintet's aspirations for a share of the Ivy League championship...