Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the final vote was taken, the bill was defeated by a narrow margin of 87 to 84. "It's a great moral victory," said Dr. Follick. "We shall...
Yale now rests in first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League with 6 wins and no defeats. It had an easy time beating Dartmouth 42 to 33, almost the same margin of victory that the Indians had over the Crimson...
...first two periods especially, the Crimson outskated and outplayed the Blue, and most observers felt that the margin of victory would have been far greater except for the brilliant work of Yale's Jimmy Burns in the nets. Burns made 36 saves, halting many Harvard rushes single-handed after the Eli defensemen had been forced out of the play...
...stake tonight than the Bulldogs. In order to tie for the Pentagonal League lead, the varsity must beat Yale twice and Princeton once. To do this, the Crimson has one crucial advantage. Harvard has three high-scoring lines of almost equal ability, and this depth could conceivably provide the margin of victory...
...week's end, when Montreal's Mayor Camellien Houde puffed up to McGill for the carnival ball, he put the crown on Beryl Dickinson-Dash's head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...