Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close was Miss Barrow's margin that a shift of three first place ballots would have changed the effect of the preferential vote. The final total gave Barrow 1,054. Gilmore 1,066. Holly Walker $10, Betsy Brown 651, and Ann Sears 545. Miss Gilmore was the second girl in Radcliffe history to carry on a fall-scale election campaign, the other being departing president Maryalice McArdle...
...slight margin which characterized the contest for the top position was not evident in the other elections: Gracia Taketa '53 was elected vice-president; Nancy Fisher '54, secretary; Peggy Brown '54, treasurer; Betty Anne Ellers 54 sub-treasurer; Betsy Ross 55, sophomore member; Lois Ann Dickson '54, NSA delegate, NSA alternate. Cynthia Crawford '55. NSA treasurer, Mary Sayre...
After the Crimson made the first basket in the game, the lead changed hands nine times in the first quarter. The varsity held a two-point edge at the quarter, and kept the margin through the second quarter to lead, 43 to 41, at the intermission. The two teams again swapped the lead eight times in the third period, but the one time Tufts broke on top in the final quarter, it stayed there for good...
Coach Huntington remarked that he was very surprised that the team won by so great a margin, and called many of the tallies "freaks" and "squeeze goals...
Willkie agreed to a $60,000-a-year salary at Kingan because, he said, the job presented a "challenge." It did, in more ways than one. He found that his patient's profit margin was critically low (1½%). He decided to develop high-profit specialty products such as precooked ham loaf, meat spreads and sausages. Willkie also advised a streamlined administration, a big research program, improved sanitation controls and a heavy advertising campaign. The old guard objected to many of Willkie's expensive ideas. Says Willkie: "From the very outset, I [was] blocked and interfered with...