Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's richest suburbs, Mitchell admitted that the party is in trouble in suburbia. While Democratic candidates pile up healthy majorities in such cities as New York, Chicago and Cleveland, they take a real walloping just outside the city limits. Adlai Stevenson's 161,000-vote margin in Chicago last year was more than erased by a 177,000 majority for Eisenhower in suburban Cook County, and Stevenson lost many a suburb far less prosperous than Evanston...
...English city of Luton, Bedfordshire (pop. 110,000) was divided last week over the question of levity on tombstones. By a slim, three-vote margin, Luton's city fathers decided that all epitaphs in the new town cemetery must be submitted to the Director of Parks for censorship. Sample of the kind of epitaph the town council opposes (as irreverent...
...second straight year, the Red Raiders were defeated on an extra-point margin. In 1952, it was Bill Monteith's three conversions that helped the Crimson...
...Notre Dame's football team, ranked the nation's best by a wide margin in the Associated Press poll, limbered up its offensive for tougher games ahead by rushing and lateral-passing to an easy victory over Purdue University, 37-7. The No. 2 team, Michigan State, overpowered the University of Minnesota, 21-0, to move into the Big Ten's top spot and push its victory streak to 26 straight games, longest of any major college. Unrated Princeton furnished the thriller of the week, drew even with Columbia by scoring on a desperate forward pass with...
...only a junior. But he has been the first-team Colgate quarterback since late in his freshman year. Last year, despite a leg injury which made it necessary for him to pass from a protected fullback position, he helped Colgate nearly overcome Harvard's winning 21-to-20 margin...