Word: margin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behalf. Freeman platform-hopped about the state with Stevenson, Humphrey returned home from Washington for a weekend of campaigning, and Eleanor Roosevelt was scheduled to lend a hand this week. D.-F.-L. Chairman Ray Hemenway predicted that Stevenson would defeat Kefauver "by a three-to-one margin in most districts, and take every one of the state's delegates." Even so, Stevenson was taking nothing for granted. "I'm not sure whether it is the Lord's work I'm doing," he told an audience at St. Paul, "but I sure want to win this...
...drug that "thins" the blood. The treatment is tricky because if it goes too far the blood might lose all clotting power, and a nick suffered while shaving could cause dangerous bleeding. The President's doctors make frequent tests, make sure that his blood still has a safe margin of clotting power. He was taking pills daily, now takes them only when tests indicate that it is necessary. The drug is derived from dicoumarin...
...contest that wasn't decided until the last event, Kirkland edged Leverett 27-21 to wind up the season in third place, with a 5 and 2 slate for the year. Both Kirkland and Leverett scored easy victories over the sixth place Lowell team, the former by a margin of 39-9 and the latter by a score...
...Crimson won the epee competition, 8 to 1, but the Elis came back to take the foil division by an identical margin and eventually took the match by winning sabre...
This sudden spurt put Yale ahead, 46 to 28, at the half. Harvard slowly cut the Eli margin during the second half, but never could get closer than six points. In the final minutes, slow and deliberate play by Yale forced the varsity into several fouls, all of which were quickly converted into points by the accurate Elis. In the last six minutes the winners scored only one field goal, but made 14 straight free throw attempts to clinch the game...