Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cassandra-like prophecies proved right again Saturday night. Plummeting from the basketball Zenith that eluded it by so slim a margin in Tuesday's Columbia overtime heart stopper. Bill Barclay's up-and-down-again team dropped a disappointing 57 to 45 decision in Cornell's Barton Hall...
Italians never got a chance to find out whether the kingly breed had improved: Umberto was dubbed Il Re di Maggio (King of the May), reigned but one month after his father. The Italian voters rejected the monarchy by a 5-to-4 margin...
...mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever...
Howie Schless' debut as freshman wrestling coach came off without a hitch as his team won its first match of the season against M.I.T.'s freshmen by a comfortable margin of 26 to 8 in the Indoor Athletic Building just before the Varsity meet...
...eight-point margin was enough for the College NROTC rifle team as it nosed out Tufts NROTC squad by an 811 to 803 score here Tuesday night. William J. Starr '51 again paced the Crimson, racking up 179 points out of a possible...