Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blockhouse was packed when the two teams started, and as event after event slipped by, Harvard's chances grew. A slight Harvard margin was expected to be wiped out in the longer events, and the meet was considered to be hanging on the relay...
...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...
...last week's West Virginia primary, the Oregon situation was reversed. With the local Republican machine solidly behind Taft, Eisenhower's name was not entered. Taft defeated Harold Stassen, his only opponent in the popularity contest, by a four-to-one margin. Taft was equally successful in squelching an effort to steal two or three of the state's 16 Republican delegates for Eisenhower. He won all but one. On the Democratic side, there was no contest; the 20 delegates elected will go to Chicago uninstructed...
...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...
...know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest is simply a matter of elementary integration which I don't have time to do," or "from here it is just slide rule pushing." Chances are you'll get partial credit, and in any case you are certainly no worse off than if you had completely surrendered...