Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have maintained their undefeated status this week by beating Thayer Hall by the narrow margin of one run, 10-9, last Thursday. Malinckrodt has lost only one contest, defending this record successfully against a last inning Holworthy threat last Monday...
...production rate, arguing that even a slight cutback in auto output (plus the hike in taxes) would bring a much sharper cut in earnings. G.M. was right. Though total sales were actually up slightly over 1950 (to $3.9 billion), G.M.'s net fell 42% to $280 million, its margin of profit from 11% to 7%. The drop, explained Chairman Alfred Sloan, showed the effect of lower passenger car sales, higher taxes (up 40% to $508 million), higher costs without compensating price boosts and "the lower margin of profit realized in defense work." As low-profit defense work becomes...
...three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven up. It was the handsomest winning margin since a newcomer named Sam Snead lost to Paul Runyan in the 1938 P.G.A. final...
From this point on, however, the English took complete command, interrupted only briefly by Al Wilson's expected win in the shot. Phil Hildreth proved a surprise in the hurdles, beating out Charley Durakis by three yards in the lows and Bob Twitchell by about the same margin in the highs. Hildreth's low hurdles time of 24.1 was a tenth of a second under the old meet curved-track record...
Slightly less than half the Class reads the comics, and with these L'il Abner is the favorite by a "two-to-one margin over Terry and the Pirates, Dick Tracy, and Blondie." Only 5% think being a Harvard man raises them above that sort of thing...