Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After stalling and spluttering their way to a 7-all halftime deadlock, where not a single forward pass was attempted by either the Blue or the Red Yearlings, the margin of inches failed on a last-minute Yale conversion attempt to give the ball game to Henry Lamar and his men yesterday...
Ticket scalping, the idiom describing the prevalent practice of playing the football market at multiple margin, will be on the defensive this year under public law enforcement statute...
...Francisco, Elmer E. Robinson, 52, a much-married (four times) Superior Court judge, succeeded to the mayor's chair voluntarily vacated by peripatetic Roger D. Lapham, who had traveled widely in his unsuccessful efforts to bring the United Nations to his home town. Elected by a narrow margin over two opponents, Robinson had the varied support of civic leaders, liquor interests and the Hearst newspapers...
Here's how it goes: Harvard beat Holy Cross by seven points; Holy Cross tied Dartmouth; Dartmouth outscored Brown by three; and the Bruins beat Yale by six points, the Elis losing in turn to Wisconsin by a nine-point margin. Wisconsin won over Iowa by 32 points, and, after adding all these scores together, Sly figures Harvard to be 39 points in front of Iowa by a mere 21, the Crimson obviously is eighteen points better than Leahy's Fighting Irish...
...second overtime period with the score at 1 to 1 the referee called a back charging penalty area and Phil Potter scored the awarded free kick for the winning margin...