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Word: margin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a CRIMSON postcard poll of all Faculty members with appointments of more than one year, Dowey will trounce Truman by a four to one margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dewey Gains Landslide Endorsement of Faculty | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...went on the books yesterday when the Council set the date for the all-college polling in the first week of March--a two or three week jump on balloting of previous years. The elections have been moved back in order to allow Senior Student Government officers a wide margin for handing in theses and studying for finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alice Gilbert Quits as 'Cliffe's NSA Delegate | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

Sharp's catch seems certain to crack all deepsea fishing records for Harvard undergraduates by a wide margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Angler Lands Huge Tuna | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...Winthrop squeeze over Leverett, the Deacons overcame uncooperative officialling and 65 yards of penalties to keep their small margin. The two lines were equal charge for charge, but the Bunny running attack, split between the "T" and the single wing, was no competition for the faster Puritans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey Works on Fundamentals; Winthrop, Kirkland Notch Wins | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...from a Communist election rally to follow a Labor Party car (see cut). At the polls their elders did virtually the same, even though Labor has done little more than the Tories ever did for the Gorbals. Alice Cullen, Labor's candidate, won by a 6,525-vote margin over the Conservative candidate.The Communists, after an all-out campaign, got 17% of the vote. Said one Labor Party official in smug satisfaction: "We've still held our record of never losing a seat at a by-election since 1945." In 1906 the Gorbals became one of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Cheers for the Victor | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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