Word: marginally
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Before election day in Kentucky last week Democratic Candidate Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler* predicted that he would be elected governor by a margin of 113,000 votes. Kentucky's best guessers scoffed that Happy's estimate was characteristically too high, guessed that he would win by no more than 70,000. When the votes were counted, it turned out that even Happy's happy estimate had been too cautious. He ran up a total of 457,185 votes to beat Republican Candidate Edwin R. Denney by 131,353; the biggest majority a candidate for governor ever piled...
...civic group was busy circulating a petition yesterday calling for a recount of the 36,000 ballots cast in the local council election. The organization says a recount is necessary because CCA-backed Marcus Morton was edged for ninth place on the council by Charles A. Watson, with a margin of less than 100 votes...
...unofficial first ballot count indicated yesterday that the Cambridge Civic Association, which pledges to be "more sympathetic to Harvard", will regain a majority in the City Council election by a 5-4 margin...
Since the West exists on the "knife-edge of natural sanction," DeVoto said, "there is no margin of flexibility in violation of conservation laws." The former Pulitzer prize winner in History spoke before over 100 people in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...polls had barely closed this week when the answer began to appear: a loud and disturbing nein. By a margin of more than two to one, Saarlanders, German-speaking and German-oriented, had rejected a plan giving them political autonomy under the new Western European Union (TIME, Oct. 17) and continued postwar economic union with France...