Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Most observers in Washington credited Senator Robinson's boast that he had enough votes to pass his Court bill if it could be brought to a vote, but his margin was slim, depending heavily on freshmen Senators elected last autumn. Although he claimed upwards of 50 out of 96 Senators as supporters, the Democrats who led the 16 minority Republicans in opposition included some of the ablest, most experienced members of the Democratic ranks. They included many who had been expected to find reason for swinging back to the Administration's side on the compromise bill, such...
...from the Pacific Coast), to rural v. urban population (e.g., 56% from cities, 44% from the country), to economic levels, sex, age, occupation, color, size of community. Only adults are interviewed. Results are believed to be accurate for the U. S. as a whole within a 2 % margin of error...
...record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under the scrutiny of science...
...them against Yale. To the track team goes the dubious honor of having probably the worst season. Riddled by gradu-games, lost in the I. C. A. A. A. A. gamesation, it was fifth in the Heptagonal at New York, lost the dual meet to Yale by a slight margin, was barely successful in whipping Dartmouth for its only victory. The Freshman on the other hand won all three dual meets, soundly whipped Yale...
...correct answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, No. Had the South voted solidly for Hoover in 1932, for Landon in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt would still have been elected in each year by a big margin...