Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scoop out 100 of them, you'll get approximately 70 white beans and 30 black in your hand and the range of your possible error can be computed mathematically. As long as the barrel contains many more beans than your handful, the proportion will remain within that margin of error 997 times out of 1,000." The reverse, he maintains, is equally true: a proportion of 7 to 3 in the hand means a proportion of 7 to 3 in the barrel...
...best stroke to be sport himself on the waters of Lake Cayuga for many a long year. What's more, he's the nephew of the greatest stroke Cornell ever had, whatever that may signify. For a third, this crew has elready defeated Syracuse by a sizeable margin...
With almost 1500 sailors turning out daily to hoist dinghy sails in the afternoon, MIT has plenty of experienced material to draw from. Its present squadron already has carried off the Oberg Trophy for Boston's Greater Dinghy Championship, leading the Crimson, which took second, by a sizeable margin...
Weight events and the distance runs provided the necessary elixir for Freshman track team victory for the first time Saturday by a margin of 70 to 56 against highly-touted Exeter...
...indicate. Stroke Charlie Rimmer pushed the stroke up to 38 with a half-mile left, but could not force the Crimson shell into the two-way struggle between the leaders, who widened the distance to a length and a quarter over Harvard before Princeton squeaked to a three-foot margin at the finish. Once again, Rutgers wallowed in its opponents' wakes