Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the record market value of 439 million dollars reached by the Harvard Endowment Fund during the past year, rising costs have kept the Faculty of Arts and Sciences "on the raged edge of insolvency," Bundy said. He characterized the $132,321 margin by which he balanced the Faculty's budget as "a matter of luck...
Jolly Old Electorate. From the outset, it was clear that the moderates were in firm control. Fractious Nye Bevan noisily challenged Hugh Gaitskell, whom he considers his chief antagonist and rival, for the post of party treasurer. Gaitskell won by a 5-to-1 margin. The defeat seemed only to inspire Bevan to new onslaughts. He charged that the party has become dominated by the huge trade unions. Labor's answer to the Tories, he shouted, should be not change but a return to the old hellfire Socialism and nationalization of almost everything. "You are not Socialists!" he thundered...
Trailing close behind for the second straight year is Match 1a with 559 people. This six vote margin is a slight improvement over last year's four vote edge...
...Quebec-usually as solidly Liberal as Georgia is Democratic-the returns gave Liberal politicos far more to worry than to cheer about. In one riding, where the party's 1953 winning margin was 12,591, their margin was reduced to 3,203. In another district, where no Tory candidate had come close since 1911, the lead seesawed for hours before the Liberal candidate finally slid in front by 562 votes. In the one Quebec riding where the Liberal majority was normal, it was a question whether the appeal of the party or the luster of the candidate...
Dazzling white lines shining at five-yard intervals ran across the field. The linesmen and umpires with their striped shirts stood on the margin of the playing field. Another roar of jubilation broke out as the Giants appeared. In only a few seconds, the hour-long battle would start. Four 15-minute periods of desperate struggle lay immediately before...