Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are, indeed, a few positions where Sanders is woefully weak in substitutes. It helped, though, to hear that highly-touted Maryland barely got started against the University of Missouri (an easy 74-13 victim last year) and won by the thin margin of one point-after-touchdown...
...from the league. Never headed, they took 22 out of their first 24, for a 9½-game lead. By June 11 they had gained another game; after that, their lead never dropped below ten. Even during a midseason slump (they lost twelve out of 18 in August), the margin grew because the rest of the pack, snarling and snapping at themselves, knocked each other off to push the Dodger lead to an enormous...
...Eisenhower and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt-were to run against each other in a presidential election?" Put to the Gallup test, 52% of the polled public voted for Roosevelt last week, 43% were for Eisenhower, 5% could not make up their minds. Democrats favored F.D.R. by a margin of 85 to 15, Republicans liked Ike 83 to 17, and Independents gave Eisenhower...
...victory was a distinct shock to Kentucky's regular Democratic politicians, who had predicted a Combs victory by a margin of 40,000 votes. And it was a portent of worse shocks to come. If he wins the election in November (which seems likely), Chandler will almost certainly throw out the supporters of Senator Earle Clements and found his own political dynasty. And, with the end of his machine at hand, Boss Clements' own future looks bleak: during the campaign Happy repeatedly swore to end Clements' career in Washington if he won the governorship...
...loans were solidly secured (see below), the Veterans Administration also tightened up on the building boom by requiring at least a 2% down payment on previous no-down-payment loans. In Manhattan, major banks also cut down on credit by hiking interest rates on loans to brokers to carry margin accounts. But these actions were not likely - or indeed intended - to make a big dent in 1955's prosperous economy...