Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although Kefauver had lured every special group with every special promise he could muster up, Stevenson carried cities and farm country, labor districts and white-collar districts, Negro areas and melting pots. In the expected total of about 1,800,000 Democratic ballots, Stevenson won an unexpected margin of about 450,000 votes...
...jumped to an early lead and didn't relinquish it. But the Elis were never more than a length behind the whole way and with half a mile to go drew up to three-quarters of a length with a killing effort. Then they faded: the varsity's final margin was two and a half lengths...
...year came to a close, one last bit of glory appeared for the College. In an "intercollegiate intelligence tournament" Harvard beat Yale by a large margin. The highest scorer for either side was a Harvard senior named Nathan M. Pusey...
...difficult process of trying to pull the poles of the Democratic Party together, Stevenson was clearly having more success than Kefauver. He won a waferthin victory in a somewhat bored Florida (a margin of 12,000 votes in a total vote of 430,000), but it gave him 22 of Florida's delegates to the Democratic National Convention and left only six for Kefauver. With that momentum, Stevenson landed in California shaken, but on his feet...
...Time for Margin. At the semiannual meeting of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, the nation's top industrialists worried that tight money might force cutbacks in industry's expansion plans. Said Scripto's President James V. Carmichael: ("There's no question the tightening of credit has put a slight damper on our long-range planning." Department Store (Daniels & Fisher) President Joe Ross worried that the money shortage might cut back on Denver's "tremendous growth." Complained Ross: "The cost of expansion is prohibitive because of the money rates." But few businessmen...