Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women graduates out-read the men by a wide margin, at least as far as bestsellers are concerned. Last year's far-&-away favorite (read by 48.1% of the men and 72% of the women) was Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I. Most-read magazines of both sexes, in order: Reader's Digest (46.5%), LIFE (42%), TIME...
...Margin of Error. Near Lille, France, Amateur Electrician Eugene Delobelle, who was positive that 6,000 volts would not kill a man, tried it on himself, and was proved wrong...
Under the system, missing Group Three rating by a narrow margin would not mean automatic loss of a scholarship, Dean Leighton said. Instead the board would consider such factors as other activities, special recommendations, and actual need of individual cases before the award was withdrawn...
After finishing the fall season with a comfortable lead, the Mastodons lost a sizable portion of their margin to Winthrop, which emerged as cold weather club of considerable minor sport power. Paradoxically, spring affected the Puritans, who lapsed into an enervated slump, while the Elephants trundled home with the silverware...
Wally Coulson's single to right field scored Chip Gannon from third in the seventh inning to break a 8 to 3 tie and provide the winning margin...