Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Liberation Front demands recognition of Algeria's complete independence as the first condition of an armistice. But France, which has sent 700,000 troops to Algeria since the war began and is spending over a billion francs a day keeping the situation barely under control, has no margin for imposing solutions which do not have the support of the majority of Algeria's 8,000,000 Moslems. Said De Gaulle last week: "It will be 15 years before there is peace in Algeria...
Navy will be the favorite tomorrow afternoon, but only by the slightest of margins. Using the Princeton crew as a basis of comparison, it can be seen that Penn and Navy are practically even, with Harvard a close third. The Middies beat the Tigers by a foot on April 20 with the very good time of 8:45. Princeton then in turn beat Penn by the same margin and the Crimson by about one-half a length...
...Princeton match, though lost by a wide 13-2 margin, was actually a rather close contest. Seven matches went to three sets, and all of them were won by Princeton. As Jack Barnaby puts it, "We were expecting to beat Princeton pretty handily, but actually if we were to beat them it would have had to have been in the gruelling Presbyterian fashion...
...years ago the Crimson rugby team was leading Yale 8 to 0 at half time, but eventually lost 11 to 8. Last Saturday the Crimson also ran up an 8-0 margin in the first half, but this time scored the 11 second-half points also, to trounce the Elis 19 to 0 and complete a perfect Eastern League season...
...just off the top six, proved decisive. Al Goldman, at fifth singles, defeated Joe Turner, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, in a two and one-half hour marathon. In the sixth spot, Ned Weld topped Tom Davidson, 6-1, 6-2, to give the varsity a 4-2 margin in the singles...