Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four straight until a teammate, just before the attempt, yelled "Automatic Hyde." It is to be hoped that said teammate will tape up his mouth before the next Dartmouth game. Dartmouth has defeated Harvard by a margin of a single extra point twice since...
...were originally scheduled for mid-afternoon, but the severe choppiness of the water in the Charles basin forced postponement. The freshman 'fifties finally raced at 6:45 p.m., while the jayvees and varsity rowed together at 7:15 p.m. in a race too dark to clock or estimate the margin of finish...
...sports where previous results can mean something--but in the middle of April this doesn't help much, since only one of the contending boats has raced. Rutgers has already absorbed defeats from Columbia and Penn, the former winning by one length, and the latter by the healthy margin of six lengths. The Scarlet is never highly regarded among Eastern rowing circles, and these defeats have not helped its reputation...
Experience gave the Crimson its margin of superiority. The varsity has had the benefit of fall and spring workouts, as well as a vacation trip to the south. On the other hand, BU, never a tennis power, has found time for but a few scattered workouts this spring and has met no other intercollegiate competition...
...fact was that a margin cut alone was not enough to send the market up; a margin cut from 100% to 75% had had little effect in February 1947. High taxes still kept many investors short of cash and those with cash were holding off until they were surer about the extent of the current business recession...