Word: margin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson convinced the 40,000 spectators that its 5-0 record was no fluke by putting on the most powerful display of consistent offense and smothering defense that any Harvard team has thrown against the Big Green in 40 years. The 22-7 score is the biggest victory margin since the Crimson beat Dartmouth...
...Harvard boat stroked by sophomore Dave Harmon won the "light-weight eight-oared shells" event in the time of 17:57.8, eleven seconds ahead of runner-up Princeton. In the "light-weight fours with coxswain," the Harvard boat stroked by Joe Bracewell '69 captured first by a four second margin...
...than he held in a survey by the correspondents one month earlier. Hubert Humphrey led in only six states and the District of Columbia, down four (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee) from his September showing. In some of those, including New York and his home state of Minnesota, his margin was precarious. George Wallace could claim six Southern states, having picked up two (Arkansas and South Carolina). The breakdown...
...Games record and became the first trackman ever to win his event in four successive Olympics. Beamon, the precocious newcomer, competing in his first Olympics, leaped 29 ft. 2½ in. on his very first try, to smash the world long-jump record by an improbable margin of almost...
...test of skill and stamina that many experts consider to be even more demanding than the decathlon. After four days of brutal competition, Perm ran 4,000 meters across country in 14 min. 25.7 sec. to edge Hungary's Andras Balczo for the gold medal by the thin margin of 11 points...