Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick to praise Dewey's 1944 decision was the G.O.P. press. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He [Dewey] abstained from using the information . . . and lost the election by a margin that could easily have been wiped out by the Pearl Harbor revelations, and established himself as a true, self-sacrificing patriot...
...seacoast fire-control radar" can detect individual vessels 25 miles out to sea through the soupiest nor'easter, with a five-yard margin of error at twelve miles...
...auto manufacturer may calculate his price in one of two ways: his own 1936-39 profit margin, or one-half the 1936-39 industry average based on 1941 base costs plus increases in basic wages and material costs-or on his 1942 model price, whichever is higher...
Smith, Gore, and Standish Halls will continue to operate as Freshman dormitories and not as Houses, Dean Leighton stated. With Freshman migrations being discouraged, Smith Hall will remain completely filled, as will every entry in Standish except one. Regardless of, any caprices of the Admissions Committee, a comfortable margin for error in entrance estimates exists in Gore, where 60 per cent of the rooms are vacant this summer...
Confident Claims. Last week Laborites confidently claimed that they have won at least 100 seats from the Conservatives. They believed that voting for 50 other seats had gone so much in their favor that the result would be decided by a very narrow margin. If Labor has won 100 new seats, it would have 266 seats in the next Parliament-22 seats short of the number on which Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labor Government...