Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials went into a huddle, the coaches wondered who had won. Even from their position 400 yards behind the finish it was obvious that M.I.T. and Harvard were out in front alone. Finally the public-address system intoned the verdict: Uncle Harvard had lost. M.I.T.'s winning margin: four feet...
Where a surgeon must work in the skull, or perhaps the chest, their technique gives an added margin of safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...
...P.A.C. moved into the state to rally the Negro vote. Negroes, registering in greater numbers than ever before, voted in some precincts 10 to 1 for Pepper, but it was not enough. Rural Floridians turned out to vote in force against Pepper. Smathers won by a decisive margin of more than 60,000 votes...
...Margin for Error. To pull $50 million a year into Northgate, Allison's architects designed the center with the precision of a cash register. The parking lots will hold 4,000 cars, and no automobile will be more than 600 ft. from the nearest store...
...Harvard Service Bureau, leviathan among its competitors, employs 12 typists and boasts the Square's one photo-offset machine. This device, which produces an even right margin, attracts a heterogeneous clientele--reports from the Dean's Office to programs for the Union Dance Committee. The Service Bureau professes stenographic friendship for students and faculty alike, but some people have stretched its good will, believing Service to include baby sitting and information on transcontinental trips...