Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winners had one big chance to fatten their point margin in the second quarter, but it never materialized. A long completed Dunster pass was called back because of an ineligible receiver down field...
...Dartmouth are usually optimistic, often over-optimistic, about their athletic prowess. But current word out of the Hanover hill-country has it that, if the Indians don't overcome Harvard by a fair margin today, they won't win another game this season...
McCarthy had entered the Marines a poor man. He had sold everything he owned for $3,000, turned most of it over to a broker to buy International-Great Northern Railroad bonds on margin. This investment prospered. When he returned he sold out, switched to other securities, pledged them at an Appleton bank, and played the market with the borrowed money. From 1946 to 1949, McCarthy paid no state income tax. In each year, his listed losses or interest payments exceeded his taxable income. Asked how he lived, McCarthy snaps: "Who I borrow from is none of your damned business...
President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, who replaced Charles Seymour last year, suggested last fall that student conferences between representatives of the two colleges might be useful to eliminate the "10 to 25 percent margin" between the Harvard student's apathy toward extra-curricular and college life and the Yale man's overzealousness...
...Henley in July of the same year, the prep school boat again was the victor, this time by a sizable three-length margin over a distance of one and five-sixteenths miles. Kent than proceeded to win the Thames Challenge Trophy, which last year was undefended and eventually won by Pennsylvania. Alan O. Dann...