Word: margin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's direction the chief of the Civil Service Commission warned the 829,000 Federal employes against buying securities for speculation, on margin, or for any other than investment purposes...
...principle of "balance-in-motion" is relatively simple. By means of electrobasographs Dr. Schwartz determined that in natural walking the big toe propels the body forward, the heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground...
...Jayvee race is the last event on the program and features a clash between Harvard. Tech and the Union Boat Club. Bolles' second string eight proved last week that they could take Tech by something around seven lengths; and Union B. C. beat the third Varsity by a narrow margin early in the week. But because the Jayvees are so far superior to the third beat, Union does not seem to stand much of a chance today...
Battlingly gamely to a three set decision in the crucial match, the University tennis team went down to defeat before Princeton Saturday by a one match margin, four to five. After losing the first two singles, the Crimson players pulled up to a four-four tie by winning the number five singles match...
...Team, the University skiers handed the Green its first major defeat of two years last Sunday in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race in Tuckerman's Ravine at Mt. Washington. The sum of the times of the first 15 men on each team gave the Crimson a slim margin of 6.7 seconds, 739.2 seconds to Dartmouth's 745.9. First place was taken by Dick Dorrance of Dartmouth, slalom champion of the United States, in the time of 40.1 seconds...