Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interspersed with a see-saw opening battle that M.I.T. snatched from Northeastern by the same 5 to 4 margin, the evening's encounter provided a blood-thirsty crowd with a series of thrills that lasted well past midnight...
...writing was on the wall after the first event, with a medley trie of Hob Branard, Chuck Hoolzer, and Stove Wise each contributing part of a half tank final margin. In the 220-yard freestyle, Jerry Gorman of the Varsity was more than a match for last year's distance ace, Ted Norris...
...brightly, that the U.S. is the senior partner in world power, and the British therefore will just have to get used to the way Americans work and think. Wiser Americans note that Britain, in depression for a generation and drained by two wars, is acutely conscious that her margin of survival has shrunk past the danger point. The British anxiety over their dependence on the "reckless" U.S. may be exaggerated or dead wrong, but it is, in view of their own position, understandable...
...Assembly should be cast by provinces, which would let him take advantage of the 7-to-3 Hindu majority in Assam. Jinnah said that the vote should be cast for Group C as a whole. In this way his 33to-27 majority in Bengal would wipe out the Hindu margin in Assam and give the Moslems a 36-to-34 edge (in effect, a limited Pakistan) in Group C. The British agreed with Jinnah...
...preface to the new 141-page psalter is a letter from Chiang to his great & good friend, Translator Wu, with a photostat of one of the Generalissimo's own editorial emendations brushed on the manuscript's wide margin. Says the letter...