Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matthews may send a story back to a senior editor for further work; he may okay it unchanged. More often, he makes his own changes, fills the margin ' with suggestions, questions and cautionary comments. The copy then goes to the researchers for checking. Charged with verifying every word, they put a dot over each one to signify that they have. Their more important job is to make sure that the story as a whole adds up; sometimes every statement in a story may be true and yet the story as a whole give a false impression. In this process...
...support, and no coach, the Crimson polo team in now on a playing basis, and last Saturday galloped through its first match of the new era. Following the pattern of companion Harvard teams it succumbed to a fully-equipped and experienced Yale squad by a forbidding 23 to 4 margin...
...away "on business," Mrs. Boettiger has practically taken over the job of running the paper. The Times has taken a good deal of running. Despite its fast growth, it is not yet making money, and two months ago it borrowed $200,000 from a bank, to get "an extra margin" of capital. "If we don't meet the payments," said Mrs. Boettiger, "we lose the plant and the newspaper." She doesn't expect to lose. She has put her big, rambling suburban house up for sale and plans to move into a smaller one. At week...
...Quakers held their margin until the ten-minute mark of the second half, when three consecutive buckets by Hauptfuhrer narrowed the count to 40 to 38. But Penn surged back in the waning moments to outdistance the Crimson...
...first time in six years, a Princeton hockey team downed the Crimson Saturday night. Grabbing a five-goal margin before the visitors could score once, the Tigers were never threatened despite a three-goal counter-attack in the final period, and wound up on the long end of the 8 to 4 final score...