Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago the English Department held a margin of 124 students over the next largest field, Economics. Last year the lead had fallen to 35. Now English has been superseded, there being 23 more concentrators in Economics than in this division of the field of Modern Languages. Economics now counts 417 members against 394 for English...
...swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split the Republican Party within itself during the next four years, the re-election of 1932 might as well be a perfunctory one-party affair, to save public bother and private expense. With a Republican Congress, an efficient nationwide party...
...Presidency. His supposed ability to carry mighty New York had been the President-reject's right-to-run. Many a Democrat had regarded the Smith candidacy of 1928 as a test of what might be in 1932. Among more than 4,000,000 votes, the Hoover margin of 100,000 over Smith in New York was not numerically enormous. But psychologically it loomed as the terminus of the brief, embattled Smith leadership in the national Democracy. It silenced any reproaches that might have been uttered against the party-faithless South. The victories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island only intensified...
...full house at Symphony Hall is expected tonight when three members of the Harvard Debating Council take to the platform with Yale at 8.15 o'clock this evening to prove "That Al Smith should be elected President". Another Harvard team lost by a one point margin to the Yale debaters at New Haven last week when they took the negative of the same proposition, so that tonight's team is prepared to do justice to Smith...
...Crimson harriers gained a '16 to 39 victory over the University of New Hampshire Freshmen last Friday with eight of the first ten places, and Q. N. Rarrie '32 broke the record for the first year run by a 14 second margin...