Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maryland: Leaders of both parties guess Ike by upwards of 50,000. Republican Senator John Mar shall Butler has a shaky lead over Democrat George Mahoney, who is afflicted by party factionalism. 9 Massachusetts: Stevenson figures to better 1952 margin (78,810) in Suffolk County (Boston), but Ike leads statewide...
Montana: Ike by a reduced (from 51,181 in 1952) but comfortable margin. 4 Nevada: Odds are on Ike (gambling Nevada dislikes Gambling-Investigator Estes Kefauver). Republican Clifton Young is losing out in race against Democratic Senator Alan Bible...
...totals included seven Faculty members in the Humanities for Eisenhower campared to 38 for Stevenson, and in the Social Sciences 14 were for the President and 35 for Stevenson. The Democrat also led in the Natural Sciences, by a margin of 27 to 14. Twenty-seven ballots for Eisenhower and 52 for Stevenson were merely marked "Arts and Sciences," with no breakdown by areas...
Geordie threw, and Geordie won by such an impressive margin that he was haled away to Australia with the British Olympic team, but there at last he met his match: a 6-ft. lady shotputter named Helga. What happens next is probably the meatiest love affair known to show business since Barnum publicized Jumbo and Alice, and it is certainly one of the funniest in years. The moviegoer should have a thoroughly silly good time just sitting and watching two people make beautiful muscles together...
...records while the rugby and soccer teams have done quite a lot of winning. This year things seem to be different. The football team is being called "the sleeper of the Ivy League," the soccer team has dropped five straight, and on Saturday the rugby team suffered its biggest margin of defeat since the war in losing to Dartmouth...