Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trailing by four points at the midway mark, Coach Dick Corchoran's fast-breaking quintet took just three minutes to pull ahead of the Crimson, Walt McCurdy's basket making the score 47 to 46. They kept their lead--ranging from one to five point's margin--until the last two minutes of play, when a tap-in by Lew Decsi plus two foul shots and one field goal by Gray put the Cantabs back into the game; then the former Bowling Green ace put on a one-man freezing act to put the game...
...goal by Pete Eaton, another '42 veteran, tied it up at 2:06, however, and two more scores by George Minot and captain Bill Ayres provided the margin of victory. The last scores came with only 16 seconds remaining in the game. Ayres and Minot were high scorers for the Crimson, with two tallies apiece...
...fans or stumped the experts like this year's Notre Dame crew. One day they put on terrific second-half rallies; next day they roll up a lead and play second-half dead ducks. They have won six of their twelve games by a bare three-point margin or less...
...Federal Reserve Board last week fired another shot to bring down the highflying stock market. It raised margin requirements to 100%, virtually put all stock buying on a cash basis. Twice in the last year, the board has popped away. Last February it upped requirements to 50%, in July to 75%. The bull market went right on. No one expected this pop would stop it. Reason: most stock buying has been on a cash basis for some time...
...this minor misery, the President has Adviser George Allen (219 Ibs.) and Military Aide Harry H. Vaughan (228 Ibs.) Heavyweights Allen and Vaughan began their own reducing race Jan. 1, will end it on Valentine's Day, with the champion receiving $1 for every pound of his winning margin. Their referee is Harry Truman, whom they call their "fact-finding committee." The President was mercifully excused from the race, it was explained, because "he didn't have the ammunition"-i.e., pounds...