Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...average, in fact, a little below the form shown at this time last year by the 1915 team. Today's game will go a long way towards settling the future line-up. According to comparative scores the Freshmen should be able to win this afternoon by a comfortable margin...
...match between Smith and Armstrong was much closer. Armstrong took the first set with ease. The second set also went to him, but by a much narrower margin. In the third, he netted and made frequent outs. With the score at six all, Smith forced the play, and won the last two games. Armstrong steadied in the final match and won with little difficulty...
Norris, H. B., 1 Margin St., Salem...
...difficulty has been increased by the intense competition of modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...
...congratulations to the 1912 track team for the way in which it acquitted itself on Saturday. Although beginning the season with a discouraging lack of experienced men and suffering many setbacks because of bad weather, the squad finally developed into a very strong and well-balanced team. The wide margin of victory on Saturday was the result of determined and united effort, and stands as a splendid tribute to Captain Withington and to every member of his team. To the coaches, also, great credit is due, for this year's team is one developed from inexperienced material. In the meet...