Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hudson County patronage. Brash Newcomer Murray had Meyner over a barrel. Meyner is running for re-election this year, and badly needs the 70,000 vote plurality Hudson County could give him. Moreover, Meyner, a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 1960. needs to be re-elected by a handsome margin if he intends to stay in the big time. Says Murray, waiting for the governor to desert Kenny and come his way: "Meyner has to win big to look big." It was a pronouncement worthy of the man who now thinks he will control Jersey City's big Democratic...
...National League, St. Louis downed first-place Cincinnati 9 to 6, thus reducing the Redleg's margin to two games...
...second year in a row, the Princeton lightweights won the Eastern title and will therefore be the United States' representative at the Henley Regatta. Their margin of victory on Saturday at the Sprints was a scant two seats over an onrushing Crimson boat...
Navy's victory over the varsity in the elimination heat was not quite as much of a surprise as it might appear to be. The Crimson's margin over them in Philadelphia was less than half a length and at the Sprints Love remarked that they had improved a great deal. The truth of the matter is, however, the varsity did not row particularly well and as Love said, "They were not up for the race...
...comparative scores, Dartmouth appears a slight favorite. While each team defeated their only common opponent, Williams, by approximately the same margin, the Big Green was much more impressive in the Eastern Intercollegiates, held at Annapolis last weekend...