Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Dwight Eisenhower, 19th Infantry, U.S.A., and Miss Mamie Doud were married in Denver on a July afternoon in 1916. It was the time of the hobble skirt, the Pianola and the maxixe, the year that Woodrow Wilson won his second term as President by the margin of 3,806 California votes. It was a time of gathering tension, and because of trouble on the Mexican border, the Eisenhower-Doud wedding was held four months earlier than had been planned. The bridegroom, just promoted to first lieutenant, didn't have time to get new silver bars for his uniform...
Though his margin was narrowed, hard-beset Konrad Adenauer had come through...
...seen its profits fall off from $1,270,813 in 1946 to $526,283 last year. In cities where there are monopolies, the papers are doing better. Greensboro, N.C.'s Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., which helps finance 23 papers all over the U.S., reports that the profit margin of its papers in competitive cities has slipped to less than 5%, while in monopoly cities it is nearly...
...once, Bob Young had been too cautious in a public statement. He had predicted that he would win the New York Central proxy fight by 700,000 to 1,000,000 votes. His actual margin: 1,067,-ooo, or 267,000 more than the disputed 800,000 shares voted in his favor by Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson. Central President William White, conducting his last stockholders' meeting in a hot, sticky office at the Albany railroad station, with blinds drawn for an air-raid drill, sadly made the official announcement that Young had bombed...
Though the Faculty has taken on the role of an appeals court within the College, its violent pretests would seldom be ignored. When Librarian Motealf decided to morgo Widonor's two catalogues in 1950, the Library Committee approved his suggestion by a marrow margin. Since this was purely a financial matter, the Faculty would ordinarily not be involved at all. But some Faculty protested, and violently, and to the Provost. Buck then opposed the plan and the Corporation backed his view. He had interceded directly because of Faculty pressure...