Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful particle accelerator. Last week Soviet scientists announced that the great proton synchrotron in the village of Dubna near Moscow has gone into operation and is generating protons with 8.3 billion electron-volts of energy. This beats the 6 billion-volt Bevatron at Berkeley, Calif, by a comfortable margin, and the Russian scientists are confident that their machine will soon reach its designed power...
Last week, after a roaring re-election campaign, Paul Egan clomped to victory with a 4,000-vote margin - 1,000 votes better than his plurality in 1953. Crowed Egan as he spat triumphantly into his desk: "It all proves one goddamned thing. You can't fool the people. The world is watching a new concept of government, where the people make themselves heard above the horse manure of the vested interests. The world will be hearing from Aurora in the next four years, you can bet your tail on that...
...despite the apparently imposing qualifications of the team's opponents, coach Bruce Munro expects that it will be an extremely close game. The Crimson squad scrimmaged the Club team several weeks ago and was defeated by a very narrow margin...
...record this season, having lost narrowly to Princeton and beaten Wall Street. Its greatest strength lies in the experience of its players, many of whom are Britons working in New York. With an average age of about 30, it wins the oldest-local-rugby-team title by a comfortable margin...
...Intercollegiate Cup match, Darmouth won by the smallest possible margin, but it was definitely the better side. This time it was the Crimson's turn to play a defensive game...