Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scant or not, the margin in the two heats, both timed in a sharp 2:02, made it a big day for Lusty Song and Owner Hayes. The winner's share of the record $75,208 purse: $40,537. It was a big day for Del Miller, too. He picked up a check for $4,053, the driver...
Marshall pulled hardest, led Furuhashi at the 100-meter mark. At 200 meters Marshall's graceful, reaching strokes still held the margin; whirlpooling into the 250-meter turn he looked like a winner...
...Force did not reveal the top speed of the diving jets, but it must have exceeded the speed of sound (670 m.p.h. at high altitude) by a wide margin. Some air-wise observers privately calculated that the fighters might have been diving at 1,300 m.p.h. when they made their sudden pullouts...
...Curb coffee speculation by increasing margin requirements, now around 15%, to 50% on the New York exchange; amend certain trading rules which permit Brazilian interests virtually to control the New York market...
...Tories had won a sweeping majority. 2. The middle-of-the-road Liberal party had made striking gains. 3. Labor was firmly in the saddle for another five years. 4. Communist strength had grown seriously since 1945. 5. The small Labor margin made another election soon seem probable...