Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful varsity eight staved off a desperate rush by Syracuse last Saturday and held on to win the feature race of the Charles River Regatta by a margin of some seven feet...
...varsity heavy race, the Crimson's plan was effectively simple: get ahead and stay ahead. It started well, going into the lead by a length over the rest of the field, and holding the margin until Syracuse started its bid with 3/4 of a mile to go. At this point the Orange put its boat up to 35 but varsity stroke Fritz Schwarz kept his boat at 32 and still managed to maintain a lead of about 2/3 of a length...
...Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them. Given a margin of error for the contestants' human foibles, the producers seem to be able to control virtually everything-except their own fears of losing their audience...
...National Basketball Association championship, they seemed to be sticking to the same pattern: St. Louis won in double overtime, 125-123. While St. Louis won two more by one basket, the only formula they seemed to know, the Celtics stayed in the series by taking three; their winning margin ran as high as 20 points a game...
Five lengths was also the winning margin of the first freshman boat, which won in 6:15. The fastest time of the day was recorded by the second freshman boat, which beat its rivals by seven lengths and 35 seconds to finish...