Word: margin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale has been the big surprise of the lightweight season, dispensing with its opponents easily before putting away the high-stroking Harvard crew by a six-second margin last weekend. So Harvard goes into Sunday's sprints a clear underdog--the second seed after Yale--but it knows what it is up against...
...Canada. The election's most important province is Ontario, with Toronto the focus of attention. Last time around, the Liberals won 18 of 20 Toronto seats, but the Conservatives held an 11-point lead in the polls three weeks ago. Recent surveys, however, show the Liberals have narrowed the margin to five points, and the number of undecided voters has risen. Trudeau's campaign magic may yet sway the Canadian electorate to grant him four more years...
...Harvard oarsmen paid particular attention to the margin of victory over Penn, as Yale, ranked number one in the nation to Harvard's two, defeated the Quakers by 13.4 seconds on the Housatonic River last weekend...
...Crimson's margin of victory was 12.5 seconds, close enough to the Yale bulge, and an even tighter match considering Yale and Penn rowed into a head wind--which is known to maximize race margins. Harvard and Penn rowed with a tail wind, which tends to shorten times between crews...
...seems to be the case every year, the J.V.s once again go into the sprints as heavy favorites. "We've met the enemy and he is us." Cooley said yesterday, explaining that it is up to Harvard to determine the margin of victory...