Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stronger in the privacy of the voting booth than in polls, editorials or street-corner talk. In New York, no one in his right mind had conceded colorless Joe Hanley more than a 100,000 majority for Lieutenant Governor; Republican Joe Hanley trotted home with a 350,000 margin...
Official reason: the ungracious one-vote margin by which the resolution was squeezed through. Dundee Socialists were agin' it ''till after...
Republicans have gained strength since 1940 in every section of the U.S. except the still-Solid South, reported a Gallup poll last week. If a Presidential election were held now, Democrats would still carry 54% of the popular vote, Gallup estimated. But, he argued, this is a dangerously narrow margin for the Democrats, who can lose a national election even if they take 52% of the popular vote, because so much of that vote is from the South, where big majorities do not swell the electoral vote proportionately. A shift of a few hundred thousand votes could throw New England...
...province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity has such a margin to be left for the intruder, because none is in such constant contact with it. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events...
...generals had plotted long and carefully, but they had not left margin enough for the imponderables. They had miscalculated and might still be miscalculating Russian strength. They had overestimated their own air power, had not foreseen the emergence of British-American air power. They had been caught short by their weaknesses in southern Europe. Adolf Hitler might well ponder the words of Prussian Karl von Clausewitz, father of modern strategy...