Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
Riding the crest of a five-genie winning streak, Winthrop's quintet will seek to preserve its margin in the House court loop when play picks up a week from tomorrow. "There will be plenty of hot basketball before the end of the season in March," Samborski predicted, with Dunster, Eliot, and Dudley all sporting top squads...
...showdown in the election of my successor as president. After much study of the constitution, a meeting was called of all the editors who were then in college. There was a surprisingly large number of them and, as you know, the vote went against us by a substantial margin...
...young (37) White House physician was there to assert that he was an utter ignoramus about his speculation in the commodity markets. He almost succeeded in proving it. Although he was a trader on margin, he said he did not know the meaning of the term "margin" (a woman sitting behind him snickered: "That's what you spread on bread...
...minutes later Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins, who has as hard a time getting steel as the next manufacturer, was in the witness chair. Why, he asked with elaborate irony, didn't Ginsberg go into the steel grey market and "make the same small margin of profit that he makes in building materials?" Chirped unabashed Mr. Ginsberg, who was once New York State's champion lightning calculator: "How much do you need...