Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had turned the trick? What had upset all Communist expectations of a Yes vote? What had changed the electorate's seeming apathy into a turnout which produced a margin of 1,100,000 No's out of 20,000,000 ballots...
...London's Euston and King's Cross Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...
...expected the Princeton crew, decisively beaten by Penn and Rutgers the week before, to come as near as it did to stealing the Crimson's three-foot lead for second place. At the same time that the Varsity's final sprint eked out its margin over the Tigers, it was narrowing the quarter-length of open water held by the Big Red at the end. M.I.T.'s last minute crab threw it more than 16 seconds behind the Harvard time...
...race supplied the finish-line audience on the West Boston Bridge with a dramatic close. Princeton held a low, easy stroke and the lead for the whole distance to win in 10:1.6, while the Crimson pulled a neck-and-neck contest out for a final ten-feet margin...
Yale will be seeking to break a string of seven consecutive Crimson victories, a streak unparalleled in the history of the rivalry. Of the 80 past races, the Crimson has won 41, holding a two race margin over the Blue...