Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course of his labors, Editor Mathews restored to a number of words their proper birthright. Though the Oxford Dictionary contends that demoralize is French, Mathews tracked it down to Noah Webster, who used it in a pamphlet on the French Revolution and carefully noted in the margin that he was coining the word. In his own dictionary, Webster also noted the word congressional. But since he attributed it to a man named Barlow, the Oxford editors assumed he meant the 17th Century English bishop. The word was proved an Americanism when Mathews unearthed a letter from Webster...
...basis of knowledge that has asked about the classification test, nearly all students enrolled at Harvard should be able to pass by a comfortable margin...
Holworthy's third puts it in first place by a margin of seven points in the Yard competition, ahead of Stoughton. Holworthy won the 200-yard freestyle relay...
Kirkland moved within one game of the House volleyball championship yesterday by beating Dunster in the I.A.B. The Deacons defeated their nearest rival two games to none, while Eliot also shut out Winthrop by the same margin...
Eliot won by forfeit over Adams, Kirkland defeated Winthrop, two games to one, and Lowell topped Leverett by the same margin, in House volleyball yesterday afternoon in the L.A.B...