Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Eisenhower has never even run for office . . . public-opinion polls are not infallible, and is Ike's margin over Truman so much greater than was Dewey's around convention time, 1948? Didn't the Gallup poll report last summer that Ike's popularity had slipped 5% in one month...
...American League, Stoughton won an overtime 22 to 20 contest from Straus North as Buddy Rogers scored for the margin of victory. In other games, Weld South walloped Mower, 37 to 17, Thayer North beat Wigglesworth East, 26 to 22, while Thayer Middle forfeited to Matthews North...
...Beneath its hewn beams, soothed by soft music piped in from a control-panel below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered old 1941 Chevrolet...
...Insurance. Young may have been somewhat over-optimistic about what he could do for MoPac, but he did have one strong point. Ex-President Neff's profit figure of $13 million in 1951 was misleading, said Young. It gave the impression that the road had a comparatively small margin over its fixed charges. Actually, said Young, MoPac's gross of almost $60 million (equal to four times the interest on its top bonds) was the real indication of the road's earning power...
...Zero to one hundred to one thousand! BOOM!!" thundered the tape recorder. There was another silence, and then the machine resumed in a matter-of-fact tone: "You see that we have quite a margin to expand above 4.0." (The number refers to the Chart of Human Evaluation, which measures one's mental health by the standards of Dianetics...