Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bert Haines' freshman crew, however, that provided the most exciting race of the afternoon. They managed to pull out about a deck length over M.I.T. at the bridge, but couldn't increase the margin...
...reporters with the enthusiasm of an electric calculator ticking off a problem in square root. "It is no easy task to defeat a popular wartime general in successive elections [i.e., Nebraska and Illinois]. In the fourth largest state of the Union I have carried the state by a smashing margin of six to one against him . . . The Illinois results finally eradicate the Minnesota write-in results [Ike 107,000, Taft 24,000] ballyhooed so vigorously by the internationalist press...
Bleed (v.i.) : To print over the margin to the edge of a page...
Chief reason for the change: a quietly planned, intensive campaign by Eisenhower supporters to get rank & file voters to the caucuses to swamp the pro-Taft regular organization. The plan worked. Ike won a presidential preference vote (by a margin of five to three), and his supporters claimed two-thirds of the 2,588 delegates' seats in the King County convention. This would give Ike supporters almost a third of the delegates to the May 24 state convention. The managers, inspired by their Seattle victory, settled down this week for similar campaigns in other counties. They were confident that...
...close decision to ex-Oklahoma University star Jack Blubaugh, now wrestling for the Armed Services wrestling squad. In previous rounds, Lee pinned Rush of the U.S. Navy, Coursen of Springfield, Rose of Long Island, and Haney of the Baltimore Y.M.C.A. In a fourth round match, leading by a fair margin. Lee rolled over on his own shoulders in applying a cradle hold to Armand Taylor, a Norfolk, Virginia, schoolboy, and since Olympic touch-fall rules were followed in the tournament, was declared loser. Blubaugh placed first and Taylor second...