Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dewey is favored to defeat his formerly unknown opponent, Representative Walter A. Lynch, in the New York gubernatorial race, but the margin should be very close--nothing like the 687,000 plurality that the governor achieved in 1946. And Lynch may even upset Dewey, something which seemed impossible six weeks ago. The two factors which have weakened the governor's chances are a growing dislike of him in upstate New York and the "Hanley letter...
...Professor Arberry's way of thinking, the new verses will show more thoroughly than ever before what extraordinary liberties FitzGerald took with Omar-"numerous infidelities of interpretation which go beyond the generous margin of poetic paraphrase FitzGerald allowed himself . . . infidelities that err against the very spirit of the original ... Of the two, Omar and FitzGerald, if I have to choose between them, I do not doubt that the Persian was the greater poet and the greater...
...most: the use of profit-sharing devices, suggestion systems, management-labor committees, cooperative methods of enterprise. These, says Dos Passes, "are frail straws but they exist ... I believe that our salvation depends on our making a stand and recklessly investing all our hopes and energies in [them]. The margin for error is narrowing with breathtaking rapidity. The time is coming when every citizen will have to ask himself at every hour of the day: Is what I am doing helping save the Republic...
...narrow margin of six votes Britain's Labor government won a confidence vote on the announced plan to nationalize...
Holding a 3 to 2 margin at the half, Dartmouth then pilled its halfbacks and insides back in front of the goals to throttle Crimson scoring attempts for the rest of the afternoon. The final Green score came early in the third stanza on an indirect free kick...